1   
As a deer longs for a stream of cool water,
  so I long for you, O God.

2   
I thirst for you, the living God.
  When can I go and worship in your presence?

3   
Day and night I cry,
  and tears are my only food;
all the time my enemies ask me,
  “Where is your God?”

4   
My heart breaks when I remember the past,
  when I went with the crowds to the house of God
  and led them as they walked along,
  a happy crowd, singing and shouting praise to God.

5   
Why am I so sad?
  Why am I so troubled?
I will put my hope in God,
  and once again I will praise him,
  my savior and my God.

6    7   
Here in exile my heart is breaking,
  and so I turn my thoughts to him.
He has sent waves of sorrow over my soul;
  chaos roars at me like a flood,
  like waterfalls thundering down to the Jordan
  from Mount Hermon and Mount Mizar.

8   
May the Lord show his constant love during the day,
  so that I may have a song at night,
  a prayer to the God of my life.

9   
To God, my defender, I say,
  “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go on suffering
  from the cruelty of my enemies?”

10   
I am crushed by their insults,
  as they keep on asking me,
  “Where is your God?”

11   
Why am I so sad?
  Why am I so troubled?
I will put my hope in God,
  and once again I will praise him,
  my savior and my God.

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