1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, 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 thy God? 4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday. 5Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou 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 remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. 7Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me. 8[Yet] LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, [even] a prayer to the God of my life. 9I will say to God my rock, Why have thou 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 say to me, Where is thy God? 11Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.