²⁰ My soul is consumed^(A) with longing
    for your laws^(B) at all times.

² My soul yearns,^(A) even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.^(B)

¹ You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,^(A)
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.^(B)

¹³¹ I open my mouth and pant,^(A)
    longing for your commands.^(B)

¹ As the deer^(A) pants for streams of water,^(B)
    so my soul pants^(C) for you, my God.
² My soul thirsts^(D) for God, for the living God.^(E)
    When can I go^(F) and meet with God?

¹⁷⁴ I long for your salvation,^(A) Lord,
    and your law gives me delight.^(B)