Psalm 42:1-11 · Psalm 42

1 For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.

5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon-from Mount Mizar.

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

8 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"

10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Let The Children Come To Me
Psalm 42:1-11
Eulogy
by Mary Venema Swierenga
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An Infant ____________ graced this earth for three months and four days. Not a long time at all when compared to the biblical span of three-score and 10 years. Three months and four days is not a long enough time. They'll agree: three months and a few days is too short. Too short for ____________ to learn to walk and talk, to read and ride a bike. That's part of our pain as we mourn ____________ too-soon death: we expect and assume that children will flourish and grow, but ____________ life was too short for that to do anything more than begin to happen. A child's death is a reversal of expectations. And so we grieve.

But he didn't live too short a time to establish himself as a well-loved little boy with a personality all his own. ____________, his sister is -- according to ____________ …

C.S.S. Publishing Company, THE WORD IS LIFE, by Mary Venema Swierenga