1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,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 continually say to me,“Where is your God?”
4 When I remember these things,I pour out my soul within me.For I used to go with the multitude;I went with them to the house of God,With the voice of joy and praise,With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me?Hope in God, for I shall yet praise HimFor the help of His countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,And from the heights of Hermon,From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,And in the night His song shall be with me—A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will 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 breaking of my bones,My enemies reproach me,While they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me?Hope in God;For I shall yet praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.