BOOK 2

¹As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants after you, God.

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

When can I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food day and night,

while people ask my all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁴These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me,

how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God,

with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God!

For I will still praise ʜɪᴍ for the saving help of ʜɪꜱ presence.

⁶My God, my soul is in despair within me.

Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,

the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.

All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

⁸YHWH will command ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness in the daytime.

In the night ʜɪꜱ song will be with me:

a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,

while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

¹¹Why are you downcast, O my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God! For I will still praise ʜɪᴍ,

the saving help of my countenance, and my God.