BOOK II

(Psalms 42–72)

Psalm 42

Longing for God

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so I long for you, God.(A)
I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?(B)

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Psalm 63

Praise God Who Satisfies

A psalm of David. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.(A)

God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.
I thirst for you;
my body faints for you
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.(B)

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I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for[a] the living God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 84:2 Or flesh shout for joy to

40 How I long for your precepts!(A)
Give me life through your righteousness.

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131 I open my mouth and pant(A)
because I long for your commands.

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