1 A s the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.

To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.

2 M y soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

3 M y tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where thy God?'

4 W hen I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

5 W hy are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance -- My God!

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.

In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

7 D eep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

8 T he Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life.

By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song 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?”

I say to God my rock, `Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

10 A s with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where thy God?'

11 W hy are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!