Psalms 42:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 63:1 : 1 A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
  • Ps 27:4 : 4 I have asked the LORD for one thing– this is what I desire! I want to live in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the LORD and contemplate in his temple.
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies. 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
  • Ps 43:4 : 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.
  • John 7:37 : 37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually!(Selah)
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.“For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.
  • Exod 23:17 : 17 At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Sovereign LORD.
  • Josh 3:10 : 10 Joshua continued,“This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  • Job 23:3 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

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    1 Book 2(Psalms 42-72) For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!

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    2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

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    3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

    4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

    5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

    6 I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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    9 I will pray to God, my high ridge:“Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

    10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”

    11 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

  • Ps 143:6-7
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    6 I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.(Selah)

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    1 For the music director; according to the tune of“Lilies;” by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.

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    3 I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

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    7 When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the LORD. And my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

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    8 My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O LORD.

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    4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.

    5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

  • Ps 119:20
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    20 I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

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    25 ד(Dalet) I collapse in the dirt. Revive me with your word!

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    3 I am absolutely terrified, and you, LORD– how long will this continue?

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    24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

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  • Ps 5:2
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    2 Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for I am praying to you!

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    131 I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands.

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