Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
New International Version NIV
1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, 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 continually say unto me, Where <em>is</em> thy 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 I will remember these <em>things</em>; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing <em>in</em> the multitude.
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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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and <em>why</em> art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him <em>for</em> the wellbeing of his presence.
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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 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of 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 unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are 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 <em>Yet</em> the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song <em>shall be</em> with me, <em>and</em> my prayer unto 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 will say unto God, My rock, why hast thou 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 <em>It is</em> as death in my bones when my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where <em>is</em> thy 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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him, <em>who is</em> the saving health of my countenance 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.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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