| New King James Version | English Standard Version |
| 1To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O 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 shall I come and appear before God? | 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 they continually say to me, “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?” |
| 4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. | 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 cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. | 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 |
| 6O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar. | 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 calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me. | 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. |
| 8The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be 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 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 do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” |
| 10As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say 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 cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and 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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