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1 As a deer thirsts for streams of water, so I thirst for you, God.
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As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 I thirst for the living God. When can I go to meet with him?
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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, "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 When I remember these things, I speak with a broken heart. I used to walk with the crowd and lead them to God's Temple with songs of praise.
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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 am I so sad? Why am I so upset? and keep praising him, my Savior and
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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 my God. I am very sad. So I remember you where the Jordan River begins, near the peaks of Hermon and 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 Troubles have come again and again, sounding like waterfalls. Your waves are crashing all around 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 shows his true love every day. At night I have a song, and I pray to my living God.
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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 say to God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why am I sad and troubled by my enemies?"
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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 My enemies' insults make me feel as if my bones were broken. They are always saying, "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 am I so sad? Why am I so upset? and keep praising him, my Savior 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.