Thirsty (1)

I'm thirsty constantly. My soul seems to be parched for you. Like a deer pants for streams of water so my soul pants for God.


Psalm 42

As the deer [b]pants for the water brooks,

So my soul [c]pants for You, O God.

2 

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and [d]appear before God?

3 

My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4 

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and [e]lead them in procession to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

5 

Why are you [f]in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

[g]Hope in God, for I shall [h]again praise [i]Him

For the [j]help of His presence.

6 

O my God, my soul is [k]in despair within me;

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the [l]peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7 

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

8 

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;

And His song will be with me in the night,

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 [m]because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11 

Why are you [n]in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

[o]Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The [p]help of my countenance and my God.

Someone recently encouraged me to spend time meditating on scripture since I rarely have time to sit and read only. I have chosen this verse to commit to memory. I have been also researching the word "pant" in hebrew: תַּעֲרֹ֥ג