1 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 foodday 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 throngand lead them in procession to the house of Godwith 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 deepat the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waveshave 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 mourningbecause 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?Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,my salvation and my God.