¹可拉子孫的訓誨詩，交給詩班長。　神啊！我的心渴慕你，好像鹿渴慕溪水。

¹As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .

²我的心渴想　神，就是永活的　神；我甚麼時候可以來朝見　神的面呢？

²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

³人整天對我說：“你的　神在哪裡呢？”我就晝夜以眼淚當飯吃。

³My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

⁴我從前常常和群眾同去，與他們進到　神的殿裡，在歡呼和稱謝聲中，大家守節。每逢想起這些事，我的心就感到難過。

⁴These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

⁵我的心哪！你為甚麼沮喪呢？為甚麼在我裡面不安呢？應當等候　神；因為我還要稱讚他，他是我面前的救助、我的　神。

⁵Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

⁶我的心在我裡面沮喪；因此我從約旦地，從黑門嶺，從米薩山，記念你。

⁶My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

⁷你的瀑布一發聲，深淵就和深淵響應；你的洪濤和波浪都掩蓋了我。

⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

⁸白天耶和華賜下他的慈愛；夜間我要向他歌頌，向賜我生命的　神禱告。

⁸ Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹我要對　神我的磐石說：“你為甚麼忘記我呢？我為甚麼因仇敵的壓迫徘徊悲哀呢？”

⁹I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

¹⁰我的敵人整天對我說：“你的　神在哪裡呢？”他們這樣辱罵我的時候，就像在擊碎我的骨頭。

¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

¹¹我的心哪！你為甚麼沮喪呢？為甚麼在我裡面不安呢？應當等候　神；因為我還要稱讚他，他是我面前的救助、我的　神。

¹¹Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.