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Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
    All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Yahweh[a] will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
    In the night his song shall be with me:
    a prayer to the God of my life.
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
    Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Footnotes

  1. 42:8 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

Deep calls to deep(A)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(B)

By day the Lord directs his love,(C)
    at night(D) his song(E) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.(F)

I say to God my Rock,(G)
    “Why have you forgotten(H) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(I)
    oppressed(J) by the enemy?”(K)

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