For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.Psalms 421As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?3My tears have been my food day and night,while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4These things I remember as I pour out my soul:how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty Onewith shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember youfrom the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. 9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me?Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me,saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.Psalms 431Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation.Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me?Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?3Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me;let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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