In Context

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 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 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

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 I will ask God, my rock, |Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?|

10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, |Where is your God?|

Psalm 42:8 in Other Translations