Psalms 42:4

He remembers leading joyful crowds to God's house in festival worship. The memory of past communion intensifies his present longing.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 30:29You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
• Ps 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
• 1 Sam 1:15–16“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
• Ps 122:1A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
• Nah 1:15Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
• Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
• Ps 100:4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
• Ps 55:14We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
• Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• 2 Chr 30:23–26The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
• 1 Chr 16:1–43So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
• 2 Chr 7:10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.
• Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
• Deut 16:14–15And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• 1 Chr 15:15–28And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.
• Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
• Ps 81:1–3For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
• Ruth 1:21I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
• Lam 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

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