Psalms 42:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 42:2

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

My soul thirsteth forGod, for the livingGod: when shall I come and appear beforeGod?

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

28 verses on the floor

Psalms 63:1
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
John 7:37
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Psalms 84:10
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 27:4
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.
Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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Reproached by his enemies, still hopes in him, ver. 10, 11. To the chief musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. Sons of Korah - Who were an eminent order of singers in the house of God, 1 Chron. vi, 33.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

It was, (1.) When he was debarred from his outward opportunities of waiting on God, when he was banished to the land of Jordan, a great way off from the courts of God's house. Note, Sometimes God teaches us effectually to know the worth of mercies by the want of them, and whets our appetite for the means of grace by cutting us short in those means.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 42:2REV 22:1 JHN 4:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 42:2REV 22:1 REV 7:17
PSA 42:2PSA 27:4 PSA 26:8
PSA 42:2REV 22:1 JHN 7:38-39
PSA 42:2PSA 27:4 PSA 23:6
PSA 42:2JHN 7:37 ISA 55:1
PSA 42:2REV 22:1 PSA 36:8-9
PSA 42:2REV 22:1 JHN 4:10-11

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