1 Para el director de música. Masquil de los hijos de Coré. Como el ciervo desea las corrientes de agua, así mi alma te desea a ti, Dios. 2 Mi alma tiene sed de Dios, del Dios vivo; ¿cuándo podré venir y ver su rostro? 3 Mis lágrimas han sido mi alimento de día y de noche, mientras me dicen: «¿Dónde está tu Dios?». 4 Mi alma se desborda de dolor al recordar cómo iba con otros a la casa de Dios, entre gritos de alegría y alabanza y los cantos de quienes celebraban la fiesta. 5 ¿Por qué estás abatida, alma mía? ¿Por qué te angustias dentro de mí? Espera en Dios, porque volveré a alabarlo; él es mi ayuda y mi Dios. 6 Mi alma está abatida dentro de mí; por eso te recordaré desde la región del Jordán y de los montes del Hermón, desde el monte Mizar. 7 Un abismo llama a otro al estruendo de tus cascadas; todas tus olas han pasado sobre mí. 8 El Señor enviará su amor fiel de día, y de noche su canto estará conmigo: una oración al Dios de mi vida. 9 Diré a Dios, mi roca: «¿Por qué me has olvidado? ¿Por qué camino triste por los ataques de mis enemigos?». 10 Las palabras crueles de mis enemigos son como golpes que me aplastan los huesos, cuando cada día me dicen: «¿Dónde está tu Dios?». 11 ¿Por qué estás abatida, alma mía? ¿Por qué te angustias dentro de mí? Espera en Dios, porque volveré a alabarlo; él es mi ayuda y mi Dios.
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Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 63:1–2; Psalm 143:6–7; Psalm 119:131; Isaiah 26:8–9; Psalm 84:1–2
- 2 Psalm 63:1; Psalm 84:10; John 7:37; Psalm 27:4; Revelation 22:1
- 3 Psalm 79:10; Psalm 115:2; Joel 2:17; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 80:5
- 4 Isaiah 30:29; Psalm 62:8; 1 Samuel 1:15–16; Psalm 122:1; Nahum 1:15
- 5 Psalm 37:7; Hebrews 10:36–37; Psalm 61:2; Matthew 1:23; Psalm 27:13–14
- 6 Psalm 61:2; Jonah 2:7; Deuteronomy 3:8–9; Psalm 43:4; 2 Samuel 17:22
- 7 Jonah 2:3; Psalm 69:14–15; Psalm 88:7; Lamentations 3:53–55; Ezekiel 7:26
- 8 Psalm 16:7; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 63:6; Job 35:10; Deuteronomy 28:8
- 9 Psalm 38:6; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 62:2; Psalm 28:1
- 10 Psalm 42:3; Joel 2:17; Luke 2:35; Proverbs 12:18; Micah 7:10
- 11 Psalm 42:5; Jeremiah 33:6; Jeremiah 30:17; Psalm 43:5; Matthew 9:12
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Whence the soul, whose wandering has been made far away, may understand, if now she thirsts for Thee, if now her tears have become bread to her, while it is daily said unto her "Where is thy God?" if she now seeketh of Thee one thing, and desireth that she may dwell in Thy house all the days of her …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… because Thy Spirit was "borne over the waters," Thy mercy forsook not our misery, and Thou saidst, "Let there be light," "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Repent ye, let there be light. And because our soul was troubled within us, we remembered Thee, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and that mountain equal unto …
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But as yet "by faith, not by sight," for "we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope." As yet deep calleth unto deep but in "the noise of Thy waterspouts." And as yet doth he that saith, I "could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal," even he, as yet, doth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)