| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God! | 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. |
| 2I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?" | 2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? |
| 3I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they 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 will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival. | 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 are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. | 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. |
| 6I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from 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. |
| 7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me. | 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. |
| 8By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God. | 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 pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?" | 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 enemies' taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, "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 are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. | 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. |
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