Psalm 42:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 [a]Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your torrents,
and all your waves and breakers
sweep over me.(A)
9 By day may the Lord send his mercy,
and by night may his righteousness be with me!
I will pray[b] to the God of my life,
10 I will say to God, my rock:
“Why do you forget me?(B)
Why must I go about mourning
with the enemy oppressing me?”
Footnotes
- 42:8 Deep calls to deep: to the psalmist, the waters arising in the north are overwhelming and far from God’s presence, like the waters of chaos (Ps 18:5; 69:2–3, 15; Jon 2:3–6).
- 42:9–10 I will pray…I will say: in the midst of his depression the psalmist turns to prayer. Despite his situation he trusts the Lord to deliver him from his sorrow so that he may enter the Temple precincts and praise him once again (Ps 43:3–4, 5b).
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