The Webster Bible WBT
          
          
            New International Version NIV
          
            
              1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
            
            
                1
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.            
            
              2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
            
            
                2
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 to me, Where [is] thy God?
            
            
                3
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”            
            
              4 When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in 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 holy-day.
            
            
                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.            
            
              5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.
            
            
                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.            
            
              6 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 Mizar.
            
            
                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.            
            
              7 Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
            
            
                7
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.            
            
              8 [Yet] the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer to the God of my life.
            
            
                8
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 to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
            
            
                9
I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”            
            
              10 [As] with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where [is] thy God?
            
            
                10
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? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my 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.            
          
            
              The Webster Bible is in the public domain.
            
            
              Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011  by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.