BOOK II As the Deer Pants for the Water 1 UEB As the deer pants after streams of water, so I thirst for you, God. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
2 UEB I thirst for God, for the living God, when will I come and appear before God? BSB BSB: My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
3 UEB My tears have been my food day and night, while my enemies are always saying to me, "Where is your God?" BSB BSB: My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4 UEB These things I call to mind as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude celebrating a festival. BSB BSB: These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
5 UEB Why are you bowed down, my soul? Why are you upset within me? Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation. BSB BSB: Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
6 UEB My God, my soul is bowed down within me, therefore I call you to mind from the land of the Jordan, from the three peaks of Mount Hermon, and from the hill of Mizar. BSB BSB: O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
7 UEB Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves and your billows have gone over me. BSB BSB: Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
8 UEB Yet Yahweh will command his covenant faithfulness in the daytime; in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. BSB BSB: The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
9 UEB I will say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" BSB BSB: I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
10 UEB As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries rebuke me, while they always say to me, "Where is your God?" BSB BSB: Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 UEB Why are you bowed down, my soul? Why are you upset within me? Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God. BSB BSB: Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
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