Psalm 42

As a deer pants for flowing streams, So pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, For the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food Day and night, While they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 4 These things I remember, As I pour out my soul: How I would go with the throng And lead them in procession to the house of God With glad shouts and songs of praise, A multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, And why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, My salvation 6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; Therefore I remember you From the land of Jordan and of Hermon, From Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep At the roar of your waterfalls; All your breakers and your waves Have gone over me. 8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, And at night his song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning Because of the oppression of the enemy?" 10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, My adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul, And why are you in turmoil within me? (Why are you cast down, O my soul, And why are you in turmoil within me?) Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, My salvation and my God. (Why are you cast down, O my soul, My salvation and my God.) (Why are you cast down, O my soul, My salvation and my God.) (Why are you cast down, O my soul, My salvation and my God.)