1To the choirmaster. A Maskil[1] of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. (1أخ 6:33; 1أخ 6:37; يؤ 1:20)2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?[2] (خر 23:17; يش 3:10; مز 63:1; مز 84:2; مز 84:7; إش 41:17; إش 55:1; دا 6:26; يو 7:37)3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” (مز 42:10; مز 79:10; مز 80:5; مز 102:9; مز 115:2; يؤ 2:17; مي 7:10)4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. (1صم 1:15; 2صم 6:15; أي 30:16; مز 55:14; مز 62:8; إش 30:29; مرا 2:19)5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation[3] (مز 42:11; مز 43:5; مز 77:3; مرا 3:24; مت 26:38; يو 12:27)6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. (تث 3:9; 2صم 17:22; 2صم 17:24; يون 2:7)7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. (مز 32:6; مز 88:7; يون 2:3)8By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. (أي 35:10; مز 4:4; مز 16:7; مز 44:4; مز 63:6; مز 68:28; مز 71:3; مز 77:6; مز 119:55; مز 119:62; مز 119:148; مز 133:3; مز 149:5)9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” (2صم 22:2; مز 18:2; مز 38:6; مز 43:2)10As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” (مز 42:3)11Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. (مز 42:5)