Psalms:42-44-49
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As the deer pants for the water brooks ,
So pants my soul for You ,
O God .
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My soul thirsts for God ,
for the living God .
When shall I come and appear before God ?
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My tears have been my food day and night ,
While they continually say to me , "
Where is your God ?"
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When I remember these things ,
I pour out my soul within me .
For I used to go with the multitude ;
I went with them to the house of God ,
With the voice of joy and praise ,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast .
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Why are you cast down ,
O my soul ?
And why are you disquieted within me ?
Hope in God ,
for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance .
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O my God ,
my soul is cast down within me ;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan ,
And from the heights of Hermon ,
From the Hill Mizar .
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Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls ;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me .
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The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime ,
And in the night His song shall be with me --
A prayer to the God of my life .
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I will say to God my Rock , "
Why have You forgotten me ?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?"
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As with a breaking of my bones ,
My enemies reproach me ,
While they say to me all day long , "
Where is your God ?"
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Why are you cast down ,
O my soul ?
And why are you disquieted within me ?
Hope in God ;
For I shall yet praise Him ,
The help of my countenance and my God .
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Vindicate me ,
O God ,
And plead my cause against an ungodly nation ;
Oh ,
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man !
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For You are the God of my strength ;
Why do You cast me off ?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?
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Oh ,
send out Your light and Your truth !
Let them lead me ;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle .
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Then I will go to the altar of God ,
To God my exceeding joy ;
And on the harp I will praise You ,
O God ,
my God .
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Why are you cast down ,
O my soul ?
And why are you disquieted within me ?
Hope in God ;
For I shall yet praise Him ,
The help of my countenance and my God .
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We have heard with our ears ,
O God ,
Our fathers have told us ,
The deeds You did in their days ,
In days of old :
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You drove out the nations with Your hand ,
But them You planted ;
You afflicted the peoples ,
and cast them out .
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For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword ,
Nor did their own arm save them ;
But it was Your right hand ,
Your arm ,
and the light of Your countenance ,
Because You favored them .
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You are my King ,
O God ;
Command victories for Jacob .
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Through You we will push down our enemies ;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us .
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For I will not trust in my bow ,
Nor shall my sword save me .
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But You have saved us from our enemies ,
And have put to shame those who hated us .
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In God we boast all day long ,
And praise Your name forever .
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But You have cast us off and put us to shame ,
And You do not go out with our armies .
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You make us turn back from the enemy ,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves .
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You have given us up like sheep intended for food ,
And have scattered us among the nations .
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You sell Your people for next to nothing ,
And are not enriched by selling them .
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You make us a reproach to our neighbors ,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us .
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You make us a byword among the nations ,
A shaking of the head among the peoples .
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My dishonor is continually before me ,
And the shame of my face has covered me ,
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Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles ,
Because of the enemy and the avenger .
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All this has come upon us ;
But we have not forgotten You ,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant .
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Our heart has not turned back ,
Nor have our steps departed from Your way ;
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But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals ,
And covered us with the shadow of death .
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If we had forgotten the name of our God ,
Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god ,
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Would not God search this out ?
For He knows the secrets of the heart .
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Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long ;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter .
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Awake !
Why do You sleep ,
O Lord ?
Arise !
Do not cast us off forever .
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Why do You hide Your face ,
And forget our affliction and our oppression ?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust ;
Our body clings to the ground .
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Arise for our help ,
And redeem us for Your mercies '
sake .
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My heart is overflowing with a good theme ;
I recite my composition concerning the King ;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer .
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