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 />