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Psalms 42:3

GriefDiscouragement and depressionDoubt

1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 79:10

    Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

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  • Psalms 115:2

    Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

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  • Joel 2:17

    Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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  • Psalms 42:10

    As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

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  • Psalms 80:5

    Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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  • Psalms 102:9

    For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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  • Psalms 79:12

    And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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  • Micah 7:10

    Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

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