Parallel Verses
King James 2000
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
New American Standard Bible
When shall I come and
King James Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Holman Bible
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?
Julia Smith Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of 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?
Themes
Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » Spiritual thirst, examples of
The Heart » Illustrative » (panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
Topics
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 42:2
Devotionals containing Psalm 42:2
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 42:2
Prayers for Psalm 42:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
1 [To the Chief Musician. A maschil, for the Sons of Korah.] As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after 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 continually say unto me, Where is your God?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure his indignation.
John 7:37
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves show of us what manner of welcome we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Psalm 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 36:8-9
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Psalm 43:4
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
Psalm 84:4
Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah.
Psalm 84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Daniel 6:26
I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.