Psalm 42:1-11

1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”

4 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.

5 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.

6 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.

7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

8 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.

9 I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

11 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.

Context

  1. What does it mean to ‘thirst for God’? (Psalm 27:4/36:7, 8/84:2/ 63:1/Isaiah 55:1/John 6:35)

Reflection

  1. How do we handle the question… ‘where is God’? (Psalm 13:1/14:1/22:1/ 42:3, 10/77:9/88:14)
  2. How deep in despair was the psalmist? How does he respond (Psalm 43:2/Jonah 2:7/Psalm 130:1/Philippians 4:6, 7)
  3. What’s so important about ‘Hope’? (Psalm 38:15/39:7/Jeremiah 17:17/Romans 8:23-26/Hebrews 11:1)

Testimony Time

  1. What are you thirsty for? (Psalm 34:8/143:6, 7/John 7:37) What competes with your thirst for God? (Matthew 13:22/1 John 1:9)
  2. How has He met you in your valley? (Psalm 23:4/ 34:18/40:2, 3/56:3/138:7/James 5:13)

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