Psalms 42:5

The psalmist questions his own despair and commands his soul to hope in God. He preaches faith to his troubled heart.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
• Heb 10:36–37For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Ps 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• Ps 27:13–14I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
• Ps 56:3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
• Lam 3:24–26“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
• Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
• Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
• Rom 4:18–20Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
• Num 6:26Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’
• 1 Sam 30:6David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
• Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
• Ps 55:4–5My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
• Ps 71:14But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
• Isa 50:10Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
• Ps 56:11I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
• Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
• Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
• Ps 143:3–4For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
• Ps 142:2–3I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
• Ps 91:15–16He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• Ps 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
• Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
• Ps 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

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