BOOK 2
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.
1As the deer pants for the water brooks,
so my soul pants after You, 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 ask me, “Where is your God?”
4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
5Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God!
For I shall still praise Him for the saving help of His presence.
6My God, my soul is in despair within me.
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls.
All Your waves and Your billows have swept over me.
8The Lord will command His loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night His song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.
9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
11Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise Him,
the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
1In finem. Intellectus filiis Core.
2Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. 3Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem, vivum; quando veniam, et apparebo ante faciem Dei? 4Fuerunt mihi lacrimæ meæ panes die ac nocte, dum dicitur mihi quotidie: Ubi est Deus tuus? 5Hæc recordatus sum, et effudi in me animam meam, quoniam transibo in locum tabernaculi admirabilis, usque ad domum Dei, in voce exsultationis et confessionis, sonus epulantis. 6Quare tristis es, anima mea? et quare conturbas me? Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi, salutare vultus mei, 7et Deus meus. Ad meipsum anima mea conturbata est: propterea memor ero tui de terra Jordanis et Hermoniim a monte modico. 8Abyssus abyssum invocat, in voce cataractarum tuarum; omnia excelsa tua, et fluctus tui super me transierunt. 9In die mandavit Dominus misericordiam suam, et nocte canticum ejus; apud me oratio Deo vitæ meæ. 10Dicam Deo: Susceptor meus es; quare oblitus es mei? et quare contristatus incedo, dum affligit me inimicus? 11Dum confringuntur ossa mea, exprobraverunt mihi qui tribulant me inimici mei, dum dicunt mihi per singulos dies: Ubi est Deus tuus? 12Quare tristis es, anima mea? et quare conturbas me? Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi, salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.