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! ²I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?” ³I cannot eat; I weep day and night. All day long they 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. 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. ⁶I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar. ⁷One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.⁸By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, 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?”¹⁰My enemies’ taunts cut me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “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.