1As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God. 2I thirst 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 say to me all day long: Where is your God? 4I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. 5Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God. 6I am very discouraged. That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar. 7One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me. 8Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9I will ask God, my rock: »Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?« 10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: »Where is your God?« 11Why am I in despair? Why have I become disturbed within me? Wait for God for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.