Verse of the Day

　　

Psalm 42:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

The Message

A white-tailed deer drinks from the creek; I want to drink God, deep draughts of God.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Psalm 42:1-5

(Read Psalm 42:1-5)

　　The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the hypocrite. Nothing is more grievous to a gracious soul, than what is intended to shake its confidence in the Lord. It was not the remembrance of the pleasures of his court that afflicted David; but the remembrance of the free access he formerly had to God's house, and his pleasure in attending there. Those that commune much with their own hearts, will often have to chide them. See the cure of sorrow. When the soul rests on itself, it sinks; if it catches hold on the power and promise of God, the head is kept above the billows. And what is our support under present woes but this, that we shall have comfort in Him. We have great cause to mourn for sin; but being cast down springs from unbelief and a rebellious will; we should therefore strive and pray against it.

　　

Psalm 42:1 In-Context

1 In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12.Title: Probably a literary or musical termAs the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.

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

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

　　4 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 OneSee Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

　　5 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.