Psalm 42:2
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New International Version (©1984)
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

New Living Translation (©2007)
I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?

English Standard Version (©2001)
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come to see God's face?

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

American King James 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?

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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Young's Literal Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

42:2 Thirsteth - Not after vain useless idols, but after the only true and living God. Appear - In the place of his special presence and publick worship.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. appear before God-in acts of worship, the terms used in the command for the stated personal appearance of the Jews at the sanctuary.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

42:1-5 The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the hypocrite. Nothing is more grievous to a gracious soul, than what is intended to shake its confidence in the Lord. It was not the remembrance of the pleasures of his court that afflicted David; but the remembrance of the free access he formerly had to God's house, and his pleasure in attending there. Those that commune much with their own hearts, will often have to chide them. See the cure of sorrow. When the soul rests on itself, it sinks; if it catches hold on the power and promise of God, the head is kept above the billows. And what is our support under present woes but this, that we shall have comfort in Him. We have great cause to mourn for sin; but being cast down springs from unbelief and a rebellious will; we should therefore strive and pray against it.


Exodus 23:17 "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Joshua 3:10 Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
Psalm 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 84:2 My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 143:6 I stretch out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, as a parched land. Selah.
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Daniel 6:26 "I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God and enduring forever, And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be forever.
Matthew 26:63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God."
Romans 9:26 "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD."
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, (NASB ©1995)

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

thirsteth Ps 36:8,9 63:1 Joh 7:37 Re 22:1

living Job 23:3 Jer 2:13 10:10 Joh 5:26 1Th 1:9

when Ps 27:4 84:4,10

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