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Why Am I Discouraged?
Hope in GOD!
1 As the deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, O God.2 I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and stand before Him?
3 Day and night I have only tears for food,
while my enemies continually taunt me, saying,
“So,where is this God of yours?”4 My heart is breaking as I remember
how it used to be:
I walked among the crowds of worshipers,
leading a great processionto the house of God,
and singing for joy and giving thanks
amid the sound of a great celebration!5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise Him again — my Saviorand 6 my God!
Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you—
even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,
from the land of Mount Mizar.
7 I hear the tumult of the raging seas
as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
8 But each day the Lord pours His unfailing
love upon me, and through each night I sing His songs,
praying to God who gives me life.9 “O God my Rock,”I cry out,
“Why have You forgotten me, my Lord?
Why must I wander around in grief,
oppressedby my enemies?”
10 Their taunts break my bones.
They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”11 Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise Him again — my Savior and my God!~ Psalm 42 — NLT ~