Psalms 42:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?”
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“My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?”
King James Version · Public Domain“My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 42:2 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Joshua 3:10He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
- Job 23:3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- Psalms 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
- Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Psalms 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
- Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 84:4How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah
- Psalms 84:7They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
- Psalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Isaiah 26:8Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
- Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Daniel 6:26I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
- John 5:26For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
- John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
- Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
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