[1] As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants 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 day long, “Where is your God?” [4] These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. [5] Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, For the salvation of His presence. [6] O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. [7] Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. [8] By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness; And by night, His song will be 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 a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” [11] Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, The salvation of my presence and my God.
