Hope in The Word Psalm 42+43

Hope Church continues our new series of Podcasts "Hope in the Word". Today we look at Psalm 42 +43  and people share what they learn from this passage and their experiences.  David prays and Nigel reads the passage for us.

Psalm 42

 

Book Two

 

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

 

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

 

[1] As a deer pants for flowing streams,

so pants my soul 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 the day long,

“Where is your God?”

[4] These things I remember,

as I pour out my soul:

how I would go with the throng

and lead them in procession to the house of God

with glad shouts and songs of praise,

a multitude keeping festival.

 

 

[5] Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation [6] and my God.

 

 

My soul is cast down within me;

therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

from Mount Mizar.

[7] Deep calls to deep

at the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your waves

have gone over me.

[8] By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,

and at night his song is 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 with a deadly wound in my bones,

my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me all the day long,

“Where is your God?”

 

 

[11] Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation and my God. (ESV)

 

Psalm 43

 

Send Out Your Light and Your Truth

 

[1] Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause

against an ungodly people,

from the deceitful and unjust man

deliver me!

[2] For you are the God in whom I take refuge;

why have you rejected me?

Why do I go about mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?

 

 

[3] Send out your light and your truth;

let them lead me;

let them bring me to your holy hill

and to your dwelling!

[4] Then I will go to the altar of God,

to God my exceeding joy,

and I will praise you with the lyre,

O God, my God.

 

 

[5] Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation and my God. (ESV)