Psalm 42

¹ As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul 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 the day long,
'Where is your God?'

⁴ These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

⁶ My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of the Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.

⁷ Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.

⁸ By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and 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 do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?'

¹⁰ As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
'Where is your God?'

¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.