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As Pants the Deer for Flowing Streams
- As pants the deer for flowing streams,
so longs my soul for you, O God.
I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and meet with God? - My constant tears have been my food,
both in the night and in the day,
while all day long insistently,
“Where is your God?” to me they say. - I now remember all these things
as I pour out my soul within:
how with the multitude I went
up to God’s house on Zion’s hill. - In their procession I would lead
as we approached with cheerful song
and shouts of thankfulness and mirth
among the festive, joyful throng. - Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why are you so disturbed in me?
But hope in God, for him I’ll praise;
my Savior God alone is he. - My soul within me is cast down;
I will recall you, LORD, my God
from Jordan’s land, from Hermon’s heights,
and from the top of Mizar hill. - Deep calls to deep, as with a roar
your rushing waters plunge and roll.
Your waves and breakers fall on me;
they overwhelm my very soul. - By day the LORD directs his love;
his song remains with me at night—
a prayer to him who is my God,
my only source of life and light. - This will I say to God, my Rock,
“Why have you, God, forgotten me?
Why must I go about in grief,
oppressed by evil enemies?” - As if to shatter all my bones
my foes revile and say to me,
“O tell us now, where is your God?”
Throughout the day, they scoff at me. - Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why are you so disturbed in me?
But hope in God, for him I’ll praise;
my Savior God alone is he.
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42B
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Psalm 42
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L.M.
Composer Information
- Author: OPC/URCNA (2016) (230)