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1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
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As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God? ”
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My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all 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.
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These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty Onewith shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
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
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Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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.
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My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights 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.
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Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept 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.
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By day the LORD directs his love, 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? ”
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I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by 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? ”
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My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 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.
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Why, my soul, are you downcast? 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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