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Desire and Despair Psalm 42 & 43

July 12, 2026 Psalm 42

1 For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants 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] 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] lead them in procession to the house of God, With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And [why] are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, [For] the salvation of His presence. 6 O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the 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 By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness; And by night, His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, The salvation of my presence and my God.

Psa 43:1-5 1 Give justice to me, O God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; Oh protect me from the deceitful and unrighteous man! 2 For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy mountain And to Your dwelling places. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God. 5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, The salvation of my presence and my God. Website: https://midlandreformed.com/

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