Psalms [Praises] 42:2-9

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

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

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

⁵Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to him for the yishu'ah ·salvation· of his presence.

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

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

⁸Adonai will enjoin his cheshed ·loving-kindness· in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

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