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My tears have been my bread day and night,(A)
    as they ask me every day, “Where is your God?”(B)
Those times I recall
    as I pour out my soul,(C)
When I would cross over to the shrine of the Mighty One,[a]
    to the house of God,
Amid loud cries of thanksgiving,
    with the multitude keeping festival.(D)
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.

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Footnotes

  1. 42:5 The shrine of the Mighty One: this reading follows the tradition of the Septuagint and the Vulgate.

These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(A)
how I used to go to the house of God(B)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(C) and praise(D)
    among the festive throng.(E)

Why, my soul, are you downcast?(F)
    Why so disturbed(G) within me?
Put your hope in God,(H)
    for I will yet praise(I) him,
    my Savior(J) and my God.(K)

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember(L) you
from the land of the Jordan,(M)
    the heights of Hermon(N)—from Mount Mizar.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.