ULT PSA Chapter 42

For the chief musician. A maschil of the sons of Korah.

42 As a deer longs for streams of water,

so my soul longs for you, God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When will I come and appear before the face of God?

3 My tears are my food day and night,

as people are saying to me every day, “Where is your God?”

4 These things I remember, and I pour out my soul within myself:

I traveled with the crowd and accompanied them to the house of God

with a voice of joy and praise, a multitude celebrating a festival.

5 Why are you bowed down, O my soul,

and upset within me?

Hope in God, for again I will praise him, the salvation of my face

6 and my God. My soul is bowed down within me,

therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan and the Hermons,

and from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep is calling to deep at the sound of your waterfalls;

All of your waves and your billows flow over me.

8 During the day, Yahweh commands his covenant faithfulness,

and in the night, his song is with me—

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?

Why do I walk around mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 In the crushing of my bones, those who are hostile to me rebuke me

when they are saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11 Why are you bowed down, O my soul?

And why are you upset within me?

Hope in God, for again I will give him thanks, the salvation of my face is my God.