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Psalms chapter 42

The way a deer for -- that is how aches for you, God.My whole being for God -- for the . When will I finally come and ?My tears have been , day and night, while people keep asking me, “So ?”I when I remember this: how I used to walk with the crowd into , leading them with shouts of joy and thankfulness -- a whole celebrating together.Why are you so , my whole being? Why so inside me? Put your in God -- I will praise him again, and my God.My God, my whole being is crushed inside me. So I remember you from , from , from . calls out to deep at the roar of your . All your have crashed over me.During the day, pours out his . At night, his song stays with me -- a prayer to .I say to God, : “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I walk around while my enemy crushes me?”Like a , my enemies me, asking me all day long, “So where is your God?”Why are you so , my whole being? Why so inside me? Put your hope in God -- I will praise him again, and my God.