As a deer pants for flowing streams,
So pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
For the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food
Day and night,
While they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember,
As I pour out my soul:
How I would go with the throng
And lead them in procession to the house of God
With glad shouts and songs of praise,
A multitude keeping festival.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
And why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
My salvation
6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I remember you
From the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
From Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
At the roar of your waterfalls;
All your breakers and your waves
Have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
And 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 do I go mourning
Because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
My adversaries taunt me,
While they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
And why are you in turmoil within me?
(Why are you cast down, O my soul,
And why are you in turmoil within me?)
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
My salvation and my God.
(Why are you cast down, O my soul,
My salvation and my God.)
(Why are you cast down, O my soul,
My salvation and my God.)
(Why are you cast down, O my soul,
My salvation and my God.)