BOOK 2

My Soul Thirsts for God

¹As the deer pants for the water brooks,[#42:1 Lit longs]

So my soul pants for You, O God.

²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁴These 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?[#42:5 Or sunk down]

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

For the salvation of His presence.

⁶O my God, my soul is in despair within me;[#42:6 Or sunk down]

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

⁸By 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?”

¹⁰As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹¹Why are you in despair, O my soul?[#42:11 Or sunk down]

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

The salvation of my presence and my God.