| English Standard Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. | 1 For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. |
| 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? | 2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? |
| 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” | 3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me," Where is your God?" |
| 4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. | 4I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts. |
| 5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation | 5Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. |
| 6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. | 6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. |
| 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. | 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. |
| 8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. | 8The LORD will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night-- a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” | 9I will say to God, my rock," Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" |
| 10As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” | 10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me," Where is your God?" |
| 11Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. | 11Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. |
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