Verse of the Day
Translations of Today's Verse
King James Version
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.English Standard Version
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.The Message
A white-tailed deer drinks from the creek; I want to drink God, deep draughts of God.New King James Version
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.New Living Translation
As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.Psalm 42:1 In-Context
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2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
This Week's Daily Bible Verses
Thursday, February 26
Romans 8:6-8
The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
Read all of Romans 8 NIVWednesday, February 25
Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Read all of Proverbs 8 NIVTuesday, February 24
Galatians 5:14
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Read all of Galatians 5 NIVMonday, February 23
Romans 5:15
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
Read all of Romans 5 NIVSunday, February 22
Luke 5:27-28
After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Read all of Luke 5 NIVSaturday, February 21
Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Read all of Genesis 50 NIVFriday, February 20
Psalm 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Read all of Psalm 42 NIVBrowse Daily Bible Verses
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Commentary on Today's Verse
Commentary on Psalm 42:1-5
(Read Psalm 42:1-5)
The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the hypocrite. Nothing is more grievous to a gracious soul, than what is intended to shake its confidence in the Lord. It was not the remembrance of the pleasures of his court that afflicted David; but the remembrance of the free access he formerly had to God's house, and his pleasure in attending there. Those that commune much with their own hearts, will often have to chide them. See the cure of sorrow. When the soul rests on itself, it sinks; if it catches hold on the power and promise of God, the head is kept above the billows. And what is our support under present woes but this, that we shall have comfort in Him. We have great cause to mourn for sin; but being cast down springs from unbelief and a rebellious will; we should therefore strive and pray against it.