| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 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. | 1To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
| 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? | 2My soul thirsteth 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 meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy 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. | 4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. |
| 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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. |
| 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. | 6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. |
| 7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me. | 7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are 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. | 8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto 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 will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I 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 sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy 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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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