Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of 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?
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?
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 Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God? 3 My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
Psalm 84:2
My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
Jeremiah 10:10
And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.
John 7:37
And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
1 Thessalonians 1:9
for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,
Exodus 23:17
'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.
Joshua 3:10
and Joshua saith, 'By this ye know that the living God is in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:
Job 23:3
O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
Psalm 27:4
One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
Psalm 36:8-9
They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
Psalm 43:4
And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
Psalm 84:4
O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.
Psalm 84:7
They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.
Psalm 84:10
For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:13
For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.
Daniel 6:26
From before me is made a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom they are trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for He is the living God, and abiding to the ages, and His kingdom that which is not destroyed, and His dominion is unto the end.
John 5:26
for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,
Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb: