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1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.
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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?
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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 day long, "Where is your God?"
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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 and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
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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 in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
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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 O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
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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 sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
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Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
8 The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the 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 I will 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 do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ”
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
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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 in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
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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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