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As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, 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 unto me, Where is thy God?
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I will remember these things; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing in the multitude.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him for the wellbeing of his presence.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar. 7 Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God, My rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 It is as death in my bones when my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.