Psalm 42:4 “These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the…”

Psalm 42:4

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

Geneva Bible 1599

When I remembred these things, I powred out my very heart, because I had gone with the multitude, and ledde them into the House of God with the voyce of singing, and prayse, as a multitude that keepeth a feast.

Darby Translation

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

Young's Literal Translation

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

Bible in Basic English

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

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Cross references

“When”

Ruth 1:21 Luke 16:25 Lamentations 4:1 Job 29:2–25 Job 30:1–31

Ruth 1:21 · BSB

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

Luke 16:25 · BSB

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Lamentations 4:1 · BSB

How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

Job 29:2–25 · BSB

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

Job 30:1–31 · BSB

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

“I pour”

Psalm 62:8 1 Samuel 1:15 1 Samuel 1:16 Job 30:16

Psalm 62:8 · BSB

Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

1 Samuel 1:15 · BSB

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:16 · BSB

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

Job 30:16 · BSB

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

“for I”

1 Chronicles 15:15–28 1 Chronicles 16:1–43

1 Chronicles 15:15–28 · BSB

And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 16:1–43 · BSB

So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

“with the voice”

Isaiah 30:29 Psalm 122:1 Nahum 1:15 Psalm 81:1–3 Deuteronomy 16:11 2 Chronicles 7:10

Isaiah 30:29 · BSB

You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

Psalm 122:1 · BSB

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

Nahum 1:15 · BSB

Look to the mountains— the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

Psalm 81:1–3 · BSB

Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 16:11 · BSB

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the fore…

2 Chronicles 7:10 · BSB

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

Also

Psalm 55:14 Psalm 100:4 Lamentations 2:19

Psalm 55:14 · BSB

We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

Psalm 100:4 · BSB

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.

Lamentations 2:19 · BSB

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corn…

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

In context

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

5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

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