Psalm 42

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

6 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;

Therefore I remember you

From the land of 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?

(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.

(Why are you cast down, O my soul,

My salvation and my God.)

(Why are you cast down, O my soul,

My salvation and my God.)

(Why are you cast down, O my soul,

My salvation and my God.)