Study Desk

For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them in procession to the house of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence.

O my God, within me my soul is in despair; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.

By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

As with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me all day, "Where is your God?"

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

because you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my surpassing joy, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, my salvation and my God.

For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.

You are my king, O God. Command victories for Jacob.

In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,

would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart?

You are the most handsome of the sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.