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.