| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God. | 1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. |
| 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence? | 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? |
| 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?" | 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” |
| 4These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving. | 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. |
| 5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me. | 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 |
| 6My God, my soul feels depressed within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, from the heights of Hermon, even from the foothills. | 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. |
| 7Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me. | 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. |
| 8By day the LORD will command his gracious love, and by night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. | 8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?" | 9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” |
| 10Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" | 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?” |
| 11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me and he is my 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. |
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