Call of the Wild: Session 2 Scripture

Read the scriptures and head back to the main page (link at the bottom) and answer the questions.

Psalm 42

For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.

¹ As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. hen can I go and meet with God?³ My tears have been my food day and night, while people 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 to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise    among the festive throng.

⁵ Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him,   my Saviour and my God.

⁶ 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, my soul, are you downcast?    Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him,  my Saviour and my God.

Psalm 8:1-4

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] A psalm of David.

¹ Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.² Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.³ When I consider your heavens,  the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?^[c]