[1] As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul after you, God. [2] My soul thirsts 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 they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" [4] These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. [5] Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. [6] My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. [7] Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. [8] Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life. [9] I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" [10] As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" [11] Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43