Study Desk

As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, God.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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

My soul thirsteth 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?"

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

I remember these things and pour out my soul within me. For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God, With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

My soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

The LORD will send His goodness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.