1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,

so my soul pants after you, 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 ask me, "Where is your God?"

4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,

how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,

with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

5 Why are you in despair, my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God!

For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

6 My God, my soul is in despair within me.

Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,

the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.

All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.

In the night his song shall be with me:

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,

while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

11 Why are you in despair, my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,

the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

1 To the Overcomer: Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, 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 unto me, Where [is] thy God?

4 I will remember these [things]; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing [in] the multitude.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him [for] the wellbeing of his presence.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar.

7 Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8 [Yet] the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God, My rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 [It is] as death in my bones when my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the saving health of my countenance and my God.: