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Psalms 42:3

GriefDiscouragement and depressionDoubt

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

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BSB
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
KJV
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
WEB
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
ASV
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
DARBY
My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
BLB
My tears have been to me [as] bread, day and night, in the saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
ÅB
Mine tårer er min mat dag og natt, fordi man hele dagen sier til meg: Hvor er din Gud?
OTB
Mine tårer har vært min føde dag og natt,
Mens de stadig sier til meg: «Hvor er din Gud?»
B1930
Mine tårer er min mat dag og natt, fordi man hele dagen sier til mig: Hvor er din Gud?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 79:10

    Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

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  • Psalms 115:2

    Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

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  • Joel 2:17

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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  • Psalms 42:10

    Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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  • Psalms 80:5

    You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

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  • Psalms 102:9

    For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

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  • Psalms 79:12

    Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

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  • Micah 7:10

    Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

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