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My Soul Thirsts for God

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

² My soul ^(C1)thirsts for God, for the ^(C2)living God;
When shall I come and ^(F1)(C3)appear before God?

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 remember and I ^(C1)pour out my soul within me.
For I ^(C2)used to go along with the throng and ^(F1)lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the sound of a ^(C3)shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

^5 (C1)Why are you ^(F1)(C2)in despair, O my soul?
And why are you ^(C3)disturbed within me?
^(C4)Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,
^(F2)For the ^(F3)(C5)salvation of His presence.

⁶ O my God, my soul is ^(F1)in despair within me;
Therefore I ^(C1)remember You from ^(C2)the land of the Jordan
And the ^(F2)peaks of ^(C3)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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

⁸ By day, Yahweh will ^(C1)command His lovingkindness;
And ^(C2)by night, His song will be with me,
A prayer to ^(C3)the God of my life.

⁹ I say to God ^(C1)my rock, "Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go ^(C2)mourning ^(F1)because of the ^(C3)oppression of the enemy?"

¹⁰ As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
While they ^(C1)say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

^11 (C1)Why are you ^(F1)in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,
The salvation of my presence and my God.