My tears(A) have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(B)
These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(C)
how I used to go to the house of God(D)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(E) and praise(F)
    among the festive throng.(G)

Why, my soul, are you downcast?(H)
    Why so disturbed(I) within me?
Put your hope in God,(J)
    for I will yet praise(K) him,
    my Savior(L) and my God.(M)

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember(N) you
from the land of the Jordan,(O)
    the heights of Hermon(P)—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep(Q)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(R)

By day the Lord directs his love,(S)
    at night(T) his song(U) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.(V)

I say to God my Rock,(W)
    “Why have you forgotten(X) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(Y)
    oppressed(Z) by the enemy?”(AA)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

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