1As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul 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 continually say to me, "Where is your God?"

4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

5Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.

6O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.

7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

8The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me-- A prayer to the God of my life.

9I will say to God my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10As with a breaking 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 yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.