1. As the deer pants for the water brooks,so my soul pants after you, God.

2. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When shall I come and appear before God?

3. My tears have been my food day and night,while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

4. These 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.

5. Why 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.

6. My 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.

7. Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

8. Yahwe h 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.

9. I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10. As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

11. Why 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.

1. My heart overflows with a noble theme.I recite my verses for the king.My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

2. You are the most excellent of the sons of men.Grace has anointed your lips,therefore God has blessed you forever.

3. Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one:your splendor and your majesty.

4. In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

5. Your arrows are sharp.The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

6. Your throne, God, is forever and ever.A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

7. You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

8. All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

9. Kings' daughters are among your honorable women.At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

10. Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

11. So the king will desire your beauty,honor him, for he is your lord.

12. The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.The rich among the people entreat your favor.

13. The princess inside is all glorious.Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

14. She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

15. With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.They shall enter into the king's palace.

16. Your sons will take the place of your fathers.You shall make them princes in all the earth.

17. I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.

1. God is our refuge and strength,a very present help in trouble.

2. Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes,though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

3. though its waters roar and are troubled,though the mountains tremble with their swelling.Selah.

4. There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

5. God is within her. She shall not be moved.God will help her at dawn.

6. The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved.He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

7. The LORD of Armies is with us.The God of Jacob is our refuge.Selah.

8. Come, see The LORD's works,what desolations he has made in the earth.

9. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.He burns the chariots in the fire.

10. "Be still, and know that I am God.I will be exalted among the nations.I will be exalted in the earth."

11. The LORD of Armies is with us.The God of Jacob is our refuge.Selah.

1. Oh clap your hands, all you nations.Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

2. For the LORD Most High is awesome.He is a great King over all the earth.

3. He subdues nations under us,and peoples under our feet.

4. He chooses our inheritance for us,the glory of Jacob whom he loved.Selah.

5. God has gone up with a shout,The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

6. Sing praises to God, sing praises.Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

7. For God is the King of all the earth.Sing praises with understanding.

8. God reigns over the nations.God sits on his holy throne.

9. The princes of the peoples are gathered together,the people of the God of Abraham.For the shields of the earth belong to God.He is greatly exalted!

1. Great is The LORD, and greatly to be praised,in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

2. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,is Mount Zion, on the north sides,the city of the great King.

3. God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

4. For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,they passed by together.

5. They saw it, then they were amazed.They were dismayed.They hurried away.

6. Trembling took hold of them there,pain, as of a woman in travail.

7. With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

8. As we have heard, so we have seen,in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God.God will establish it forever.Selah.

9. We have thought about your loving kindness, God,in the middle of your temple.

10. As is your name, God,so is your praise to the ends of the earth.Your right hand is full of righteousness.

11. Let Mount Zion be glad!Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,Because of your judgments.

12. Walk about Zion, and go around her.Number its towers.

13. Mark well her bulwarks.Consider her palaces,that you may tell it to the next generation.

14. For this God is our God forever and ever.He will be our guide even to death.

1. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

2. The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3. Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.Selah.

4. I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:"This one was born there."

5. Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her";the Most High himself will establish her.

6. The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples,"This one was born there."Selah.

7. Those who sing as well as those who dance say,"All my springs are in you."