Psalm 42-43

42 1  As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3  My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 4  These 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. 5  Why 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 6 and my God.My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7  Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 8  By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9  I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" 10  As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 11  Why 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.

43 1  Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me! 2  For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3  Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! 4  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 5  Why 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.