Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God.
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To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.
2 I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?
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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
3 Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, "Where is your God?"
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My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
4 My heart breaks when I remember the past, when I went with the crowds to the house of God and led them as they walked along, a happy crowd, singing and shouting praise to God.
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These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
5 Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.
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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
6 Here in exile my heart is breaking, and so I turn my thoughts to him. He has sent waves of sorrow over my soul; chaos roars at me like a flood, like waterfalls thundering down to the Jordan from Mount Hermon and Mount Mizar.
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and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
8 May the Lord show his constant love during the day, so that I may have a song at night, a prayer to the God of my life.
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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 To God, my defender, I say, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?"
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I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 I am crushed by their insults, as they keep on asking me, "Where is your God?"
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As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
11 Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.
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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.