September 13: Psalms 42–43; 2 Samuel 3; Ezekiel 2–3; Luke 9:1–50
Psalms and Wisdom: Psalms 42–43 Psalms 42–43 (Listen) Book Two Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? To the choirmaster. A Maskil1 of the Sons of Korah. 42 As a deer pants for flowing streams,<br /> so pants my soul for you, O God.<br />2 My soul thirsts for God,<br /> for the living God.<br /> When shall I come and appear before God?2<br />3 My tears have been my food<br /> day and night,<br /> while they say to me all the day long,<br /> “Where is your God?”<br />4 These things I remember,<br /> as I pour out my soul:<br /> how I would go with the throng<br /> and lead them in procession to the house of God<br /> with glad shouts and songs of praise,<br /> a multitude keeping festival.<br /> 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br /> and why are you in turmoil within me?<br /> Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br />
