[1] As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God. [2] My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before God? [3] My tears have been my food day and night, while they always say to me, "Where is your God?" [4] When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I would travel with the throng of people; I proceeded with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanks, with a multitude making a pilgrimage. [5] Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted in me? Hope in God, for I will yet thank Him for the help of His presence. [6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermon, from the hill of Mizar. [7] Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows passed over me. [8] Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will 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] With shattering in my bones, those harassing me reproach me, when they say to me every day, "Where is your God?" [11] Why, my soul, are you cast down? Why do you groan within me? Wait for God; I will yet thank Him, For He is my deliverance and my God.
