1 GLT As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs 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 GLT My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before 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 GLT My tears are my food day and night, as{ people are} saying to me every 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 GLT These things I remember, and I pour out my soul within myself: I traveled with the crowd and accompanied them to the house of God with a 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 GLT Why are you bowed down, O my soul, and upset within me? Hope in God, for again I will praise him, the salvation of my 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 GLT and my God. My soul is bowed down within me, therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, and 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 GLT Deep is calling to deep at the sound of your waterfalls; All of your waves and your billows flow over me. BSB BSB: Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
8 GLT During the day, Yahweh commands his covenant faithfulness, and in the 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 GLT I will say to God, my rock,“Why have you forgotten me? Why do I walk around 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 GLT In the crushing of my bones, those who are hostile to me rebuke me when they are saying to me all day long,“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 GLT Why are you bowed down, O my soul? And why are you upset within me? Hope in God, for again I will give him thanks, the salvation of my face is 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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