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 the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
• Heb 10:36–37For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Ps 61:2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Matt 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
• Ps 27:13–14I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Ps 56:3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
• Lam 3:24–26The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
• Ps 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Ps 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Rom 4:18–20Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
• Num 6:26The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
• 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
• Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
• Ps 55:4–5My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
• Ps 71:14But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
• Isa 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
• Ps 56:11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
• Ps 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 44:3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
• Mark 14:33–34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
• Ps 143:3–4For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
• Ps 142:2–3I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
• Ps 91:15–16He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
• Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
• Ps 35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
• Matt 26:38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Ps 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

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