| English Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. | 1For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. |
| 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? | 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? |
| 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” | 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 4These 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. | 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. |
| 5Why 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 | 5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. |
| 6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. | 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. |
| 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. | 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. |
| 8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. | 8By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” | 9I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" |
| 10As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” | 10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 11Why 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. | 11Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. |
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