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1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
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<<To the chief musician: A Maschil for the sons of Korah.>> As the hart panteth for the water brooks, so panteth my soul for Thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
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My soul thirsteth 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 people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, "Where is thy God?"
4 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.
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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me, for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 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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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
6 My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
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O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore will I remember Thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites, from the hill of Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of Thy waterspouts; all Thy waves and Thy billows have gone over me.
8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
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Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
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I will say unto God my rock, "Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me, while they say daily unto me, "Where is thy God?"
11 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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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.
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