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To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
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My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"
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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
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Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.
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O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.
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Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
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The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me-- A prayer to the God of my life.
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I will say to God my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"