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BOOK TWO: Psalms 42—72
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
1As the deer pants for the water brooks,
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 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.
5⚓Why 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?”
11⚓Why 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.