1 Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses 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.
2 Ps. 63:1; 84:2; 143:6; (Jer. 10:10) My soul thirsts for God, for the Rom. 9:26;1 Thess. 1:9 living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 Ps. 80:5; 102:9 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, Ps. 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10 “Where is your God?”
4 When I remember these things, 1 Sam. 1:15; Job 30:16 I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; Ps. 55:14; 122:1; Is. 30:29 I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
5 Ps. 42:11; 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Ps. 71:14; Lam. 3:24 Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.
6 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.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; Ps. 69:1, 2; 88:7; Jon. 2:3 All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will Deut. 28:8 command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And Job 35:10; Ps. 149:5 in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my Rock, Ps. 38:6 “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, Ps. 42:3; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10 While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 Ps. 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.