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10 I say to God, my Rock,[a]
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about in mourning
    while my enemy oppresses me?”
11 It crushes my bones
    when my foes taunt me,
jeering at me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:10 Rock: see note on Ps 18:3. Why . . . ? Why . . . ?: see note on Ps 6:4.
  2. Psalm 42:11 The psalmist has been abandoned by God to his godless enemies, who taunt him with the words “Where is your God?” He resembles a dying man, and his whole being (bones; see note on Ps 34:20-21) is distressed by his foes and by God’s silence.

10 My bones suffer mortal agony(A)
    as my foes taunt(B) me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(C)

11 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.(D)

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