1 To the head of the choir. Teaching. The sons of Korah.

2 As a deer longeth for streams of water, so my soul longeth unto thee, O God!

3 My soul thirsts for the strong and living God: when I come and appear before the face of God!

4 My tears were bread to me day and night, when they said to me all day long, Where is thy God?

5 Remembering these things, I pour out my soul, because I walked in the multitude, and entered with them into the house of God, with a voice of joy and praise of the celebrating assembly.

6 Why are you discouraged, O my soul, and why are you troubled? Trust in God, for I will still glorify Him, my Saviour and my God.

7 My soul is weary within me; therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Zoar.

8 The deep calls the deep with the voice of Thy waterfalls; all Thy waters and Thy waves have passed over me.

9 By day the Lord will shew His mercy, and by night I will sing to Him, a prayer to the God of my life.

10 I will say to God my intercessor, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why do I walk in lamentation from the insults of the enemy?

11 As if they were smearing my bones, my enemies mock me, when they say to me all the day, 'Where is your God?'

12 Why are you discouraged, O my soul, and why are you troubled? Trust in God, for I will still glorify Him, my Saviour and my God.

Psalm 42

1 Judge me, O God, and enter into my dispute with an unkind people. Deliver me from a wicked and unjust man;

2 For thou art the God of my might. Why hast Thou rejected me? Why do I walk lamenting from the insults of the enemy?

3 Send forth thy light and thy truth; let them lead me and bring me to Thy holy mountain and to Thy mansions.

4 And I will come to the altar of God, to the God of my joy and gladness, and with the harp I will praise thee, O God, my God.

5 Why are you discouraged, O my soul, and why are you troubled? Trust in God; for I will still glorify Him, my Saviour and my God.

Psalm 43

1 To the head of the choir. Teaching. The sons of Korah.

2 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us of the work which thou hast done in their days, in the days of old;