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My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God? My tears have been my bread day and night, as they ask me every day,“Where is your God?”Those times I recall as I pour out my soul, When I would cross over to the shrine of the Mighty One, to the house of God, Amid loud cries of thanksgiving, with the multitude keeping festival. Why are you downcast, my soul; why do you groan within me? Wait for God, for I shall again praise him, my savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I remember you From the land of the Jordan and Hermon, from Mount Mizar, Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents, and all your waves and breakers sweep over me.  \nBy day may the LORD send his mercy, and by night may his righteousness be with me! I will pray to the God of my life, I will say to God, my rock:  \n“Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”  \nIt shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me, when they say to me every day:  \n“Where is your God?”  \nWhy are you downcast, my soul, why do you groan within me? Wait for God, for I shall again praise him, my savior and my God.  \nPsalm 42  \nAs the deer longs for running streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God? My tears have been my bread day and night, as they ask me every day,“Where is your God?”Those times I recall as I pour out my soul, When I would cross over to the shrine of the Mighty One, to the house of God, Amid loud cries of thanksgiving, with the multitude keeping festival. Why are you downcast, my soul; why do you groan within me? Wait for God, for I shall again praise him, my savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I remember you From the land of the Jordan and Hermon, from Mount Mizar, Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents, and all your waves and breakers sweep over me.  \nBy day may the LORD send his mercy, and by night may his righteousness be with me! I will pray to the God of my life, I will say to God, my rock:  \n“Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”  \nIt shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me, when they say to me every day:  \n“Where is your God?”  \nWhy are you downcast, my soul, why do you groan within me? Wait for God, for I shall again praise him, my savior and my God.","cbCairXFj1SsFC2z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairXFj1SsFC2z","pdf",87490,"English","# Psalm 42\n## Longing for God and inner distress\n## Reproach, prayer, and remembrance\n## Waiting and renewed praise","[{\"question\":\"How does the psalmist respond to discouragement?\",\"answer\":\"The psalmist waits for God, remembering God and choosing renewed praise, declaring God as savior and rock.\"}]","Psalm 42 - A Prayer of Longing and Hope | PDF",1790657038]