The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

PSALME. 42. (Book 42)

A Prayer for comfort in spirituall desertion, and drynesse of affection, and that we may long and sigh after God.

LIke as the hart desireth the water brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul is a thirst for God, yea, even for the living God: when shall I come to appeare be∣fore the presence of God?

3 My teares have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me. Where is now thy God?

4 Now when I think thereupon, I poure out my heart by my selfe: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the hense of God.

5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: a∣mong such as keep holy day.

6 Why art thou so full of heavinesse (O my soul:) and why art thou so disquieted within me?

7 Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give

him thanks for the help of his countenance.

8 My God, my soul is vexed within me: therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Iordan, and the little hill of Hermon.

9 One deep calleth another, because of the noyse of the water-pipes, all thy waves and stormes are gone over me.

10 The Lord hath granted his loving kind∣nesse on the day time: and in the night season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me: why go I thus hea∣vily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies (that trouble me) cast me in the teeth.

13 Namely, while they say daily unto mee: Where is now thy God?

14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soule: and why art thou so disquieted within me?

15 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet thank him which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

The Prayer.

O Eternall and living God, thou art the help of our countenance and our God, thou art

the thing that we long for, and our hearts are vexed within us, and disquieted when we feel not the comforts of thy spirit, and those actuall exultations, and that spirituall gust, which thou doest often give to thy people, as earnests of a glo∣rious immortality. O Lord pitty our infirmities, and give us earnest longings for the fruition of thee our God in the actions of holy Religion: Grant to us vivacity of spirit, unweariednesse in devotion, delight and complacency in spirituall exercises, that when our soules are vexed with temptations and sadnesses, we may remember thee concerning the land of promise, and be comforted and incouraged in our duties, by the expectation of those glories which thou hast laid up for them that love the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen.