1 As a deer longs for flowing streams,

so I long for you, God.w

2 I thirst for God, the living God.

When can I come and appear before God?x

3 My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God?”y

4 I remember this as I pour out my heart:z

how I walked with many,

leading the festive procession to the house of God,

with joyful and thankful shouts.aa

5 Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.ab

6 I* am deeply depressed;

therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan

and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.ac