Daily Bible Reading

¹ As a deer longs for flowing streams,
 so my soul longs for you, O God.
‍² My soul thirsts for God,
 for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
 the face of God?
‍³ My tears have been my food
 day and night,
while people say to me continually,
 “Where is your God?”
‍⁴ These things I remember,
 as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng
 and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
 a multitude keeping festival.
‍⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
 and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
 my help ⁶ and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
 therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
 from Mount Mizar.
‍⁷ Deep calls to deep
 at the thunder of your torrents;
all your waves and your billows
 have gone over me.
‍⁸ By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
 and at night his song is with me,
 a prayer to the God of my life.
‍⁹ I say to God, my rock,
 “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
 because the enemy oppresses me?”
‍¹⁰ As with a deadly wound in my body,
 my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
 “Where is your God?”
‍¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
 and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
 my help and my God.