| New International Version | New International Version |
| 1For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. | 1For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. |
| 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? | 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? |
| 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" | 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 4These 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 with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. | 4These 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 with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. |
| 5Why, 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. | 5Why, 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. |
| 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. | 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. |
| 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. | 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. |
| 8By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life. | 8By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" | 9I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" |
| 10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" | 10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 11Why, 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. | 11Why, 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. |
| New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. | New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. |
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