BOOK TWO: Psalms 42—72
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for theliving God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
# “Whereisyour God?”
4 When I remember thesethings,
# I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
# I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
Andwhyare you disquieted within me?
# Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
Forthe help of His countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
# All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 TheLordwillcommand His lovingkindness in the daytime,
# Andin the night His songshallbewith 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?”
10 Aswith a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
# While they say to me all day long,
“Whereisyour God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.