Daily Bread Bible Reading for Friday 3 June 2022 || Psalm 42

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Daily Bread Bible Reading for Friday 3 June 2022 || Today’s Scripture: Psalm 42

Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses

To the Chief Musician. A ^[a]Contemplation of the sons of Korah.

42 As the deer ^[b]pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and ^[c]appear before God?
³My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”

⁴When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

⁵Why are you ^[d]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
^[e]For the help of His countenance.

⁶^[f]O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From ^[g]the Hill Mizar.
⁷Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
⁸The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰As with a ^[h]breaking of my bones,
My enemies ^[i]reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

¹¹Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[j]help of my countenance and my God.

Daily Bread Bible Reading for Friday 3 June 2022 || Footnotes

Psalm 42:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 42:1 Lit. longs for
Psalm 42:2 So with MT, Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Tg. I see the face of God
Psalm 42:5 Lit. bowed down
Psalm 42:5 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. The help of my countenance, my God
Psalm 42:6 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. put my God at the end of v. 5
Psalm 42:6 Or Mount
Psalm 42:10 Lit. shattering
Psalm 42:10 revile
Psalm 42:11 Lit. salvation

Daily Bread Bible Reading for Friday 3 June 2022 || Insight

In Psalm 42, what might the “thirsty deer” imagery picture? Some scholars see it describing a deer being pursued by a hunter, running for its life and desperate for water to continue its flight from danger. Others imagine the deer in a season of drought, also desperate for the water necessary for survival but facing a very different kind of threat. Ultimately, the word picture reminds us that in our own desperate seasons, we’ll only find what we need in God. Only He can truly satisfy us. By: Bill Crowder

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