¹As the deer pants for the water brooks,

so my soul pants for You, O God.

²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.[#Ps 63:1; 84:2]

When shall I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food[#Ps 80:5]

day and night,

while they continually say to me,

“Where is your God?”

⁴When I remember these things,

I pour out my soul within me.

For I would go with the throng of people,

and lead them in procession to the house of God,

with the voice of joy and praise,

a multitude keeping festival.

⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul?

And why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God,

for I shall again praise Him

for the help of His presence.

⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me;

therefore I remember You

from the land of Jordan,

and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep

at the thunder of Your waterfalls;

all Your waves and Your billows

have gone over me.

⁸The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,

and in the night His song will be with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God, my rock,[#Ps 18:2]

“Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?”

¹⁰As a shattering of my bones,

my enemies reproach me,

while they say to me all day long,

“Where is your God?”

¹¹Why are you cast down, O my soul?

And why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God;

for I shall again praise Him,

my salvation and my God.