[1] As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul after you,
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 continually ask me, "Where is your God?" [4] These things I
remember, and 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. [5] Why are you in despair, my
soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still
praise him for the saving help of his presence. [6] My 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. [7] Deep calls to deep at
the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept
over me. [8] Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the daytime. In
the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life. [9]
I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" [10] As with a sword in
my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me,
"Where is your God?" [11] Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you
disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The
saving help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43