Psalm of Jesus Christ (42)
1 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 meat day and night, 
while they continually say unto me,
 Where is your God?
4 When I remember these things, 
I pour out my soul in me:
 for I had gone with the multitude, 
I went with them to the house of God, 
with the        voice of joy and praise,
 with a multitude that kept holy day.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
 and why are you disquieted in me?
 hope you in God: 
for I shall yet praise him for
 the help of his        countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down
 within me: therefore will I remember you
 from the land of Jordan, 
and of the Hermonites, from the hill  Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise 
of your waterspouts: all your waves
 and your billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his 
loving kindness in the daytime,
 and in the night his song shall be with me,
 and my prayer unto the God of my        life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, 
Why have you forgotten me?
 why go I  mourning because of
 the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones,
 mine enemies reproach me;
 while they say daily unto me, 
Where is your God?
11 Why are you cast down, 
O my soul? and why are you
 disquieted within me? hope
 you in God: for I shall yet praise him,
 who is the health      
   of my countenance, and my God.





1 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 meat day and night, 
while they continually say unto me,
 Where is your God?


The psalmist was thirsty for the Lord
the living water.
If you knew the gift of God  and who
it is that  asks you for a drink , you would
him and he would have given you living
water   (John 4:10)
 If anyone is thirsty , let him come
to me and drink, He who believes in  Me,
as Scripture has said , rivers of living water
 will flow within them
(John 7:37-39)
Christ is the living God.
Christ has life in Himself and of Himself.
Christ is the Giver of life.

For the psalmist who is connected to
the tabernacle , there was an appointed
 place to appear before God
There was longing to connect with God at 
the tabernacle.
The unbelievers want to discourage the
psalmist . in the moment of need , they
 wanted to make him feel that God was 
nowhere to be found.
Where is your God ?


4 When I remember these things, 
I pour out my soul in me:
 for I had gone with the multitude, 
I went with them to the house of God, 
with the        voice of joy and praise,
 with a multitude that kept holy day.

The psalmist's painful memories brings 
further discouragement.
When he remember these things, 
he pour out his soul in me:
 for he had gone with the multitude, 
he went with them to the house of God, 
with the        voice of joy and praise,
 with a multitude that kept holy day.
Remembering happier times made
him sadder. He thought of the times
of joyful worship  in the house of God
and not felt so distant from those
 joyful days. 


5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
 and why are you disquieted in me?
 hope you in God: 
for I shall yet praise him for
 the help of his        countenance.


Why is his soul cast down ? 
Why is his disquieted feelings ?
His answer to his problem  is to
stop looking to himself. His answer
 is to seek the Lord.
He feels much better when his
hope is in the Lord.
He will not surrender to discouragement.
His hope is in the Lord. He will praise
the Lord for the help of His countenance.


6 O my God, my soul is cast down
 within me: therefore will I remember you
 from the land of Jordan, 
and of the Hermonites, from the hill  Mizar.

He abandons his troubles and seek the
Lord. He remembers the Lord's help 
from the land of Jordan.



 Deep calls unto deep at the noise 
of your waterspouts: all your waves
 and your billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his 
loving kindness in the daytime,
 and in the night his song shall be with me,
 and my prayer unto the God of my        life.

He is bury deep in the Lord's water
fall. 
 Deep calls unto deep at the noise 
of God's waterspouts: all God's waves
 and God's billows are gone over .him
Yet the LORD will command his 
loving kindness in the daytime,
 and in the night his song shall be with him
 and his prayer unto the God of  his  life.




9 I will say unto God my rock, 
Why have you forgotten me?
 why go I  mourning because of
 the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones,
 mine enemies reproach me;
 while they say daily unto me, 
Where is your God?

He will say unto God his rock, 
Why have you forgotten me?
 why go I  mourning because of
 the oppression of the enemy?
 As with a sword in his bones,
his enemies reproach him;
 while they say daily unto him, 
Where is your God?


11 Why are you cast down, 
O my soul? and why are you
 disquieted within me? hope
 you in God: for I shall yet praise him,
 who is the health      
   of my countenance, and my God.

Don't be cast down.
Need to keep your hope in the Lord.
Need  to keep your confidence in the 
Lord.