Top Verses from Psalms 42  

For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. (NIV)

To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. AS THE hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God. (AMP)

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (KJV)

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (NIV)

Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (NIV)

Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God. (AMP)

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (KJV)

By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me – a prayer to the God of my life. (NIV)

Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. (AMP)

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. (KJV)

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? (NIV)

My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? [John 7:37; I Thess. 1:9, 10.] (AMP)

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

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon – from Mount Mizar. (NIV)

O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. (AMP)

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. (KJV)

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. (NIV)

[Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. (AMP)

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. (KJV)

These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. (NIV)

These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" (NIV)

My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? (AMP)

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

I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" (NIV)

I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (AMP)

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (KJV)