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Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

¹ As the deer pants longingly for the water brooks,
So my ^(F1)soul ^(C1)pants longingly for You, O God.

² My soul (my life, my inner self) ^(C1)thirsts for God, for the ^(C2)living God.
When will I come and ^(C3)see the face of God? ^(VR1)

³ My ^(C1)tears have been my food day and night,
While they ^(C2)say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

⁴ These things I vividly remember as I ^(C1)pour out my soul;
How I ^(C2)used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song,
With the voice of ^(C3)joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

^5 (C1)Why are you ^(C2)in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become ^(C3)restless and disturbed within me?
^(C4)Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him
For the ^(C5)help of His presence.

⁶ O my God, my soul is in despair within me the burden more than I can bear;
Therefore I will fervently ^(C1)remember You from ^(C2)the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Mount ^(C3)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷ Deep calls to deep at the thundering sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your ^(C1)breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

⁸ Yet the LORD will ^(C1)command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And ^(C2)in the night His song will be with me,
A prayer to ^(C3)the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God ^(C1)my rock, "Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go ^(C2)mourning because of the ^(C3)oppression of the enemy?"

¹⁰ As a crushing of my bones with a sword, my adversaries taunt me,
While they ^(C1)say continually to me, "Where is your God?"

^11 (C1)Why are you in despair, O my soul?
Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,
The ^(F1)help of my countenance and my God.