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1 For the leader. A maskil of the descendants of Korach: Just as a deer longs for running streams, God, I long for you.
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1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
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2 I am thirsty for God, for the living God! When can I come and appear before God?
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2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
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3 My tears are my food, day and night, while all day people ask me, "Where is your God?"
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3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
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4 I recall, as my feelings well up within me, how I'd go with the crowd to the house of God, with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs observing the festival.
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4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
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5 My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for the salvation that comes from his presence.
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5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and
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6 My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
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6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar.
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7 Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls; all your surging rapids and waves are sweeping over me.
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7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
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8 By day ADONAI commands his grace, and at night his song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
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8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.
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9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?
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9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
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10 My adversaries' taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, 'Where is your God?'"
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10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
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11 My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for being my Savior and God.
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11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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