(A)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
(B)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”
These things I remember,
    as I (C)pour out my soul:
(D)how I would go (E)with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    (F)a multitude keeping festival.

(G)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you (H)in turmoil within me?
(I)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation[a] and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I (J)remember you
(K)from the land of Jordan and of (L)Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
(M)all your breakers and your (N)waves
    have gone over me.
By day the Lord (O)commands his steadfast love,
    and at (P)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, (Q)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
(R)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

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