Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God?

New American Standard Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?

King James Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Holman Bible

I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?

International Standard Version

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence?

A Conservative Version

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

American Standard Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

Amplified


My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?

Bible in Basic English

My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Darby Translation

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

King James 2000

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Lexham Expanded Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for [the] living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Modern King James verseion

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God; when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

NET Bible

I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?"

New Heart English Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

The Emphasized Bible

My soul thirsteth for God, for a GOD who liveth, - When shall I enter in, and see the face of God?

Webster

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

World English Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Youngs Literal Translation

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 42:2

Devotionals containing Psalm 42:2

References

Hastings

Images Psalm 42:2

Prayers for Psalm 42:2

Context Readings

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

1 To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God? 3 My tears were to me bread day and night, in saying to me all the days, Where is thy God?


Cross References

Psalm 63:1

Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.

Jeremiah 10:10

And Jehovah the God of truth; he the living God, and king eternal: from his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not prevail over his anger.

John 7:37

In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah.

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua will say, By this ye shall know that the living God is in the midst of you; and destroying, he will destroy from your face the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

Job 23:3

Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place.

Psalm 27:4

I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 36:8-9

They shall satiate from the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt give them to drink the torrent of thy delights.

Psalm 43:4

I will come to the altar of God, to God the gladness of my joy: and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.

Psalm 84:4

Happy they dwelling in thy house; they shall yet praise thee. Silence.

Psalm 84:7

They will go from strength to strength, being seen in Zion to God.

Psalm 84:10

For good a day in thine enclosures above a thousand. I chose to wait on the threshold in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of injustice.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people did two evils: they forsook me the fountain of living waters, to hew out for them wells, broken wells which will not hold water.

Daniel 6:26

From before me a decree was set forth that in every dominion of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and standing forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion even to the end.

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself;

Revelation 22:1

And he showed me the pure river of the water of life, shining as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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