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Psalm 42 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

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1 Al director musical. Masquil de los hijo de Coré. ¡Así como el ciervo jadea anhelando el agua, te anhelo yo, Dios!
1 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
2 Tengo sed de Dios, del Dios vivo. ¿Dónde hallarlo, para ir a estar en su presencia?
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 Día y noche mi pan son mis lágrimas, y mientras tanto mis enemigos se mofan de mí. «¿Dónde está ese Dios tuyo?» dicen burlones.
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
4 Mi corazón se consume en la tristeza al recordar aquellos tiempos —¡cómo olvidarlos!— cuando guiaba a una gran multitud hacia el templo en días de fiesta, cantando con gozo, alabando al Señor.
4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
5 Entonces, ¿por qué desalentarse? ¿Por qué estar desanimado y triste? ¡Espera en Dios! ¡Aún lo alabaré de nuevo! ¡Él es mi Salvador y mi Dios!
5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
6 Y sin embargo aquí estoy deprimido y sombrío; pero meditaré en tu bondad desde esta tierra por donde fluye el río Jordán y en donde se elevan el monte Hermón y el Mizar.
6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
7 Escucho el rugir del enfurecido mar, mientras tus olas y la agitada marea me derriban.
7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
8 Sin embargo, día tras día derrama el Señor sobre mí su constante amor; y por la noche entono sus cánticos y elevo oración al Dios que me da vida.
8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
9 «¡Oh Dios, Roca mía!», clamo, «¿por qué me has abandonado? ¿Por qué tengo que sufrir estos ataques de mis enemigos?».
9 I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 Sus burlas me traspasan como fatal herida no se cansan de preguntarme burlándose: «¿Dónde está ese Dios tuyo?».
10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
11 ¿Por qué voy a desarmarme y estar tan triste? Volveré y lo alabaré. ¡Es mi Dios y mi Salvador!
11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 63:1–2; Psalm 143:6–7; Psalm 119:131; Isaiah 26:8–9; Psalm 84:1–2
  2. 2 Psalm 63:1; Psalm 84:10; John 7:37; Psalm 27:4; Revelation 22:1
  3. 3 Psalm 79:10; Psalm 115:2; Joel 2:17; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 80:5
  4. 4 Isaiah 30:29; Psalm 62:8; 1 Samuel 1:15–16; Psalm 122:1; Nahum 1:15
  5. 5 Psalm 37:7; Hebrews 10:36–37; Psalm 61:2; Matthew 1:23; Psalm 27:13–14
  6. 6 Psalm 61:2; Jonah 2:7; Deuteronomy 3:8–9; Psalm 43:4; 2 Samuel 17:22
  7. 7 Jonah 2:3; Psalm 69:14–15; Psalm 88:7; Lamentations 3:53–55; Ezekiel 7:26
  8. 8 Psalm 16:7; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 63:6; Job 35:10; Deuteronomy 28:8
  9. 9 Psalm 38:6; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 62:2; Psalm 28:1
  10. 10 Psalm 42:3; Joel 2:17; Luke 2:35; Proverbs 12:18; Micah 7:10
  11. 11 Psalm 42:5; Jeremiah 33:6; Jeremiah 30:17; Psalm 43:5; Matthew 9:12

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What the Fathers said

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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).

  1. Quotes verse 42:2 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XII, Chapters VIII–XI)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 42:6 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    … 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 …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 42:7 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    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)