Psalms 42:2-9

²I desire to have fellowship with MET you, the all-powerful God. I wonder, “When will I be able to go back to the temple in Israel and worship in your presence again?”

³Every day and every night I cry; it is as though the only thing I have to drink is my tears; and while I do that, my enemies are continually asking me, “Why does your god not help you?”

⁴I am very distressed IDM as I remember when I went with the crowd of people to the temple in Jerusalem, leading them as we walked along; we were all shouting joyfully and singing to thank God for what he had done; we were a large group who were celebrating.

⁵So I say to myself, “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► RHQ I confidently expect God to help me, and again I will praise him, my God, the one who saves me.”

⁶But now, Yahweh, I am very discouraged IDM, so I think about you, even from where the Jordan River gushes out from the bottom of Mount Hermon and from Mount Mizar.

⁷But here, the great sorrow that I feel is like water that you send down MET; it is like a waterfall that tumbles down and floods over me.

⁸Yahweh shows me each day that he faithfully loves me, and each night I sing to him and pray to him, the God who causes me to live.

⁹I say to God, who is like an overhanging rock under which I can hide MET, “It seems that you have forgotten me. I ‘mourn/cry’ constantly because my enemies act cruelly toward me” RHQ.