Psalm 42:2 “My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear…”

Psalm 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

World English Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

American Standard Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

Geneva Bible 1599

My soule thirsteth for God, euen for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before the presence of God?

Darby Translation

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Young's Literal Translation

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

Bible in Basic English

My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

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Cross references

“thirsteth”

Psalm 63:1 John 7:37 Revelation 22:1 Psalm 36:8 Psalm 36:9

Psalm 63:1 · BSB

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

John 7:37 · BSB

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Revelation 22:1 · BSB

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Psalm 36:8 · BSB

They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

Psalm 36:9 · BSB

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

“living”

Job 23:3 Jeremiah 2:13 1 Thessalonians 1:9 John 5:26 Jeremiah 10:10

Job 23:3 · BSB

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

Jeremiah 2:13 · BSB

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

1 Thessalonians 1:9 · BSB

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

John 5:26 · BSB

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

Jeremiah 10:10 · BSB

But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

“when”

Psalm 84:10 Psalm 27:4 Psalm 84:4

Psalm 84:10 · BSB

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psalm 27:4 · BSB

One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalm 84:4 · BSB

How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah

Also

Psalm 84:2 Psalm 43:4 Psalm 84:7 Exodus 23:17 Daniel 6:26 Joshua 3:10

Psalm 84:2 · BSB

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalm 43:4 · BSB

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Psalm 84:7 · BSB

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

Exodus 23:17 · BSB

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Daniel 6:26 · BSB

I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never en…

Joshua 3:10 · BSB

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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