(Psalms 42–72)

1 As a deer longs for flowing streams,

so I long for you, God.  *

2 I thirst for God, the living God.

When can I come and appear before God?  *

3 My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

"Where is your God? "  *

4 I remember this as I pour out my heart:  *

how I walked with many,

leading the festive procession to the house of God,

with joyful and thankful shouts.  *

5 Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.  *

6 I  * am deeply depressed;

therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan

and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.  *

7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.  *

8 The Lord will send his faithful love by day;  *

his song will be with me in the night —

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God, my rock,  *

"Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go about in sorrow

because of the enemy’s oppression? "  *

10 My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

"Where is your God? "  *

11 Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.  *