- 42:1As the hart pants / After the streams of water, / So my soul pants / For You, O God.
- 42:2My soul thirsts for God, / For the living God. / When will I come and appear / Before God?
- 42:3My tears have been my food / Day and night, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God?
- 42:4These things I remember, / And I pour out my soul within me: / That I passed through with the throng; / I led them to the house of God / With the voice of a joyous shout and praise, / The festal multitude.
- 42:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him / For the salvation of His countenance.
- 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me; / Therefore I remember You / From the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, / From Mount Mizar.
- 42:7Deep calls unto deep / At the sound of Your water spouts; / All Your waves and Your billows / Pass over me.
- 42:8By day Jehovah commands / His lovingkindness, / And by night His song is with me, / A prayer to the God of my life.
- 42:9I say to God my rock, / Why have You forgotten me? / Why do I go mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy?
- 42:10As with a shattering in my bones, / My adversaries reproach me, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God?
- 42:11Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God.
- 43:1Render judgment for me, O God; / And plead my cause / Before an unfaithful nation; / From the deceitful and unjust man / Deliver me.
- 43:2For You are the God of my protection. / Why have You rejected me? / Why do I go about mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy?
- 43:3Send forth Your light and Your truth; / They will lead me; / They will bring me to Your holy mountain / And to Your tabernacles.
- 43:4And I will go to the altar of God, / To God my exceeding joy; / And I will praise You with the harp, / O God, my God.
- 43:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God.
- To the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Maschil
- 44:1O God, we have heard with our ears; / Our fathers have recounted it to us, / The work You did in their days, / In the days of old.
- 44:2You, by Your hand, / Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted our fathers; / You afflicted peoples, but You spread our fathers forth.
- 44:3For they did not possess the land by their sword, / Nor did their arm save them; / Rather it was Your right hand and Your arm, / And the light of Your countenance; / For You delighted in them.
- 44:4You are my King, O God; / Command salvation for Jacob.
- 44:5Through You we thrust back our adversaries; / Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us.
- 44:6For I will not trust in my bow, / Nor will my sword save me.
- 44:7But You save us from our adversaries, / And You put to shame those who hate us.
- 44:8In God we boast all day long, / And we praise Your name forever. Selah.
- 44:9Nevertheless You have rejected us and humiliated us, / And You have not gone forth with our armies.
- 44:10You have caused us to turn back from the adversary, / And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
- 44:11You have given us over like sheep to be eaten / And have scattered us among the nations.
- 44:12You have sold Your people for nothing / And have not gone high on their price.
- 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us.
- 44:14You have made us a proverb among the nations, / Something to shake the head at among the peoples.
- 44:15All day long my humiliation is before me, / And the shame of my face covers me,
- 44:16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, / Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself.
- 44:17All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, / Nor have we been false to Your covenant.
- 44:18Our heart has not turned back, / Nor have our steps deviated from Your way;
- 44:19But You have crushed us in the place of jackals / And have covered us with the shadow of death.
- 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God / Or spread out our hands to a strange god,
- 44:21Will God not search this out? / For He knows the hidden things of the heart.
- 44:22But for Your sake we are slain all day long; / We are considered as sheep for slaughter.
- 44:23Awake! Why are You sleeping, O Lord? / Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- 44:24Why do You hide Your face / And forget our affliction and our oppression?
- 44:25For our soul bows down to the dust; / Our body clings to the earth.
- 44:26Rise up; be our help, / And redeem us for Your lovingkindness' sake.
- To the choir director: according to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. A Maschil; a Song of Love
- 45:1My heart overflows with a good matter; / I speak what I have composed concerning the King. / My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- 45:2You are fairer than the sons of men; / Grace is poured upon Your lips; / Therefore God has blessed You forever.
- 45:3Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, / In Your majesty and Your splendor.
- 45:4And in Your splendor ride on victoriously / Because of truth and meekness and righteousness; / And let Your right hand teach You awesome deeds.
- 45:5Your arrows are sharp: / The peoples fall under You; / The arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.
- 45:6Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; / The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; / Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You / With the oil of gladness above Your companions.
- 45:8All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia; / From palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad.
- 45:9The daughters of kings are among Your most prized; / The queen stands at Your right hand in the gold of Ophir.
- 45:10Hear, O daughter, and see; and incline your ear; / And forget your people and your father's house;
- 45:11Thus the King will desire your beauty. / Because He is your Lord, / Worship Him.
- 45:12And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; / The rich among the people will entreat your favor.
- 45:13The king's daughter is all glorious within the royal abode; / Her garment is a woven work inwrought with gold.
- 45:14She will be led to the King in embroidered clothing; / The virgins behind her, her companions, / Will be brought to You.
- 45:15They will be led with rejoicing and exultation; / They will enter the King's palace.
- 45:16In the place of Your fathers will be Your sons; / You will make them princes in all the earth.
- 45:17I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; / Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.