Psalms 42:1-5

1As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

2My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?

3My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

5Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.