Bible TimePsalm 42
The following is the time and text for this Psalm.
Psalm 42
Theoretical Time:
- 13000-03-26 13:6:25 AA
- 2009-04-17 06:49:42 TMMT
- 2009-04-17 04:28:48 GMT
- 2009-04-17 00:28:48 EDT
26 Psalms 42
1As the deer pants after the water brook, so my soul pants after you, Yahvah.
2My soul thirsts after you, living God; when will I come to see your face?
3My tears have been my bread day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
4When I remember these things, my soul is agitated; therefore I will enter your mighty citadel, even to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the many people who rejoice.
5Why are you troubled, my soul? Why are you bewildered? Trust in God; for I will yet praise him, the Savior of my honor and my God.
6My soul is troubled inside me; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, from the mount of Hermon and from the hill.
7Deep calls to deep at the sound of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.
8Yet Yahvah will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night, his song will be with me, and my prayer to the living God.
9I will say to God, Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of my enemies?
10When my bones are broken, my enemies disgrace me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?
11Why are you disturbed, my soul? Why are you bewildered? Hope in God; for I will yet praise him, the Savior of my honor and my God.
Baseball and Day 42
United States baseball teams honored number 42 on April 15, 2009, when all players wore 42 on their uniforms. The match to the Psalm was interesting, if 2 days early.
Jackie Robinson was the first professional black US baseball player. The theme of the Psalm is inclusion, and Jackie was the first ever. A direct match to the theme of the Psalm.
This was the 62nd anniversary, an odd year count for holding a celebration, but a nice match to the Psalm.
Summit of the Americas
Barak Obama and most other leaders from the Americas gathered in Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. Cuba was notably absent, excluded from the proceedings. 34 heads of state from the OAS were in attendance.
Obama made specific overtures to Cuba and Cuba's absence was a key issue in the early meetings of the Summit. The summit was expected to run across the weekend, having started on this Friday.
Cuba's exclusion from the meeting is echoed clearly in the Psalm. To paraphrase: "How long until I will be allowed into the Assembly?" (See vs. 4, also vs. 9)