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Psalms 42 (AMP)

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¹ To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. AS THE hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God. ² My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? ³ My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? ⁴ These things I remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God , with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival. ⁵ Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. ⁶ O my God, my life is cast down upon me ; therefore will I remember You from the land of the Jordan and the Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. ⁷ deep calls to deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. ⁸ Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. ⁹ I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God? ¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.