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Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.^[1] (Jl 1,20) 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?^[2] (Wj 23,17; Joz 3,10; Ps 63,1; Ps 84,2; Ps 84,7; Iz 41,17; Iz 55,1; Dn 6,26; Jan 7,37)

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3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” (Ps 42,10; Ps 79,10; Ps 80,5; Ps 102,9; Ps 115,2; Jl 2,17; Mi 7,10)

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4 These 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. (1 Sm 1,15; 2 Sm 6,15; Job 30,16; Ps 55,14; Ps 62,8; Iz 30,29; Lm 2,19)

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5 Why 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] (Ps 42,11; Ps 43,5; Ps 77,3; Lm 3,24; Mt 26,38; Jan 12,27)

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6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. (Pwt 3,9; 2 Sm 17,22; 2 Sm 17,24; Jon 2,7)

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7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. (Ps 32,6; Ps 88,7; Jon 2,3) 8 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. (Job 35,10; Ps 4,4; Ps 16,7; Ps 44,4; Ps 63,6; Ps 68,28; Ps 71,3; Ps 77,6; Ps 119,55; Ps 119,62; Ps 119,148; Ps 133,3; Ps 149,5)

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9 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” (2 Sm 22,2; Ps 18,2; Ps 38,6; Ps 43,2)

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10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” (Ps 3,1) 11 Why 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. (Ps 5,1)