1 As the deer longs for the water brooks, ♦︎
so longs my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul is athirst for God, even for the living God; ♦︎
when shall I come before the presence of God?
3 My tears have been my bread day and night, ♦︎
while all day long they say to me, Where is now your God?
4 Now when I think on these things, I pour out my soul: ♦︎
how I went with the multitude
and led the procession to the house of God,
5 With the voice of praise and thanksgiving, ♦︎
among those who kept holy day.
6 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, ♦︎
and why are you so disquieted within me?
7 O put your trust in God; ♦︎
for I will yet give him thanks,
who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
8 My soul is heavy within me; ♦︎
therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan,
and from Hermon and the hill of Mizar.
9 Deep calls to deep in the thunder of your waterfalls; ♦︎
all your breakers and waves have gone over me.
10 The Lord will grant his loving-kindness in the daytime; ♦︎
through the night his song will be with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
11 I say to God my rock,
Why have you forgotten me, ♦︎
and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresses me?
12 As they crush my bones, my enemies mock me; ♦︎
while all day long they say to me, Where is now your God?
13 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, ♦︎
and why are you so disquieted within me?
14 O put your trust in God; ♦︎
for I will yet give him thanks,
who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
1 Give judgement for me, O God,
and defend my cause against an ungodly people; ♦︎
deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked.
2 For you are the God of my refuge;
why have you cast me from you, ♦︎
and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresses me?
3 O send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, ♦︎
and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling,
4 That I may go to the altar of God,
to the God of my joy and gladness; ♦︎
and on the lyre I will give thanks to you, O God my God.
5 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, ♦︎
and why are you so disquieted within me?
6 O put your trust in God; ♦︎
for I will yet give him thanks,
who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
1 Great is the Lord and highly to be praised, ♦︎
in the city of our God.
2 His holy mountain is fair and lifted high, ♦︎
the joy of all the earth.
3 On Mount Zion, the divine dwelling place, ♦︎
stands the city of the great king.
4 In her palaces God has shown himself ♦︎
to be a sure refuge.
5 For behold, the kings of the earth assembled ♦︎
and swept forward together.
6 They saw, and were dumbfounded; ♦︎
dismayed, they fled in terror.
7 Trembling seized them there;
they writhed like a woman in labour, ♦︎
as when the east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we had heard, so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God: ♦︎
God has established her for ever.
9 We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God, ♦︎
in the midst of your temple.
10 As with your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; ♦︎
your right hand is full of justice.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice and the daughters of Judah be glad, ♦︎
because of your judgements, O Lord.
12 Walk about Zion and go round about her;
count all her towers; ♦︎
consider well her bulwarks; pass through her citadels,
13 That you may tell those who come after
that such is our God for ever and ever. ♦︎
It is he that shall be our guide for evermore.
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