Psalms 42:5

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 for the saving help of his presence.

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  • Ps 42:11 : 11 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 44:3 : 3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
  • Ps 71:14 : 14 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
  • Lam 3:24-26 : 24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 56:3 : 3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
  • Ps 56:11 : 11 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • Num 6:26 : 26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.'
  • 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
  • Ps 27:13-14 : 13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. 14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. By David.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
  • Rom 4:18-20 : 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be." 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
  • Ps 35:14 : 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
  • Ps 91:15-16 : 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him. 16 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
  • Ps 142:2-3 : 2 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 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.

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  • Ps 42:6-11
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    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?"

    11 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.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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 42:1-4
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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.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

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

  • Ps 62:5
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    5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

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

  • Ps 6:3
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    3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

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

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

  • 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 25:1
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    1 To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

  • 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.

  • Ps 116:7
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    7 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

  • Ps 146:1
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    1 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

  • Jonah 2:4
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    4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Ps 130:5
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    5 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

  • Jonah 2:7
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    7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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

  • Ps 22:1
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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?

  • Ps 51:12
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    12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

  • Lam 3:20-21
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    20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

    21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

  • Ps 57:1
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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.

  • Lam 3:24
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    24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

  • Lam 3:17-18
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    17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

    18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

  • Ps 30:10
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    10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."

  • Ps 94:19
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    19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

  • Ps 71:20
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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.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • Ps 25:16
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    16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • Ps 143:11
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    11 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

  • Ps 142:5
    71%

    5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

  • Ps 102:10
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    10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

  • Ps 11:1
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    1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

  • Ps 62:1
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    1 My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.