Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 42:9, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Psalms 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my hi…
- Psalms 28:1
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- Psalms 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
- Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Psalms 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
- Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
- Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Psalms 77:9
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
- Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.