| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1 For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. | 1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God. |
| 2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? | 2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? |
| 3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me," Where is your God?" | 3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, "Where is your God?" |
| 4I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts. | 4I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts. |
| 5Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. | 5Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God. |
| 6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. | 6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. |
| 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. | 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me. |
| 8The LORD will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night-- a prayer to the God of my life. | 8The LORD will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night--a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9I will say to God, my rock," Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" | 9I will say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" |
| 10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me," Where is your God?" | 10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?" |
| 11Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. | 11Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God. |
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