Psalms 42:11

World English Bible (2000)

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
  • Ps 43:5 : 5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
  • Matt 9:12 : 12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

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  • Ps 42:1-10
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    1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

    2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

    3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

    4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

    5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

    6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

    8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

    9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

    10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • Ps 43:4-5
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    4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

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  • Ps 43:2
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    2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Ps 88:14
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    14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • Ps 13:1-2
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    1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 39:7
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    7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

  • Ps 71:14
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    14 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

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    5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

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    3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

  • Ps 3:2
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    2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

  • Lam 1:21
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    21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

  • Ps 38:15
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    15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

  • Ps 31:14
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    14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

  • Ps 22:1-2
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    1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

    2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

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    1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

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    1 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

  • Ps 77:2-3
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    2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

    3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

  • Ps 62:7
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    7 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

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    29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

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    20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

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    1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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    1 Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

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    9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

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    7 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

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    24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

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    17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

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    15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

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    10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."