For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.
1
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
3
My tears have been my food day and
night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4
These things I remember as I pour out my
soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the
Mighty Onewith shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
5
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so
disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my
Savior and my God.
6
My soul is downcast within me; therefore
I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of
Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your
waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
8
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
9
I say to God my Rock, “Why have you
forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
10
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes
taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so
disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my
Savior and my God.
