Aug 27, 2018
1 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 can I go and meet with
God?
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day
long,
“Where is your 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 One[d]
with shouts of joy and
praise
among the festive throng.
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 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 to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept 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.
9 I say to God my
Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?”
10 My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your 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.