BOOK II As the Deer Pants for the Water 1 ULT As a deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants 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 ULT My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear to the face of God? BSB BSB: My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
3 ULT My weeping is bread to me day and night, in{ their} saying to me all of the day,“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 ULT Let me remember these, and let me pour out my soul within me, that I went over with the crowd. I led them in procession to the house of God with a voice of rejoicing 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 ULT Why have you bowed yourself down, my soul, and are clamoring within me? Wait for God, for I will again thank him, the salvation of his face. 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 ULT My God, my soul has bowed itself down within me. Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, from Mount 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 ULT Deep is calling to deep at the sound of your waterfalls. All of your breakers and your waves pass over me. BSB BSB: Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
8 ULT { By} day, Yahweh commands his covenant faithfulness, and at night, his song{ is} 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 ULT Let me say to God, my rock,“Why have you forgotten me? Why do I walk about 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 ULT With crushing in my bones, the ones afflicting me reproach me in their saying to me all of the day,“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 ULT Why have you bowed yourself down, my soul, and why are you clamoring within me? Wait for God, for I will again thank him, the salvation of my face 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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