1 T o 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.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

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

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4 T hese 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!

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

5 W hat! 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!

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.

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

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

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

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8 B y day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

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

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

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

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

11 W hat! 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!

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.