Book Two
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
To the choirmaster. A Maskil1 of sthe Sons of Korah.
42 tAs a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
20 Even the beasts of the field ipant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
hand fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.
30 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him
and covers the roots of the sea.