¹لامام المغنين. قصيدة لبني قورح‎. ‎كما يشتاق الإيل الى جداول المياه هكذا تشتاق نفسي اليك يا الله‎.

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

²‎عطشت نفسي الى الله الى الاله الحي. متى اجيء واتراءى قدام الله‎.

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

³‎صارت لي دموعي خبزا نهارا وليلا اذ قيل لي كل يوم اين الهك‎.

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

⁴‎هذه اذكرها فاسكب نفسي عليّ. لاني كنت امرّ مع الجمّاع اتدرج‏ معهم الى بيت الله بصوت ترنم وحمد جمهور معيّد‎.

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.

⁵‎لماذا انت منحنية يا نفسي ولماذا تئنّين فيّ. ارتجي الله لاني بعد احمده لاجل خلاص وجهه

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.

⁶يا الهي نفسي منحنية فيّ. لذلك اذكرك من ارض الاردن وجبال حرمون من جبل مصعر‎.

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.

⁷‎غمر ينادي غمرا عند صوت ميازيبك. كل تياراتك ولججك طمت عليّ‎.

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

⁸‎بالنهار يوصي الرب رحمته وبالليل تسبيحه عندي صلاة لاله حياتي‎.

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.

⁹‎اقول للّه صخرتي لماذا نسيتني. لماذا اذهب حزينا من مضايقة العدو‎.

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

¹⁰‎بسحق في عظامي عيّرني مضايقيّ بقولهم لي كل يوم اين الهك‎.

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

¹¹‎لماذا انت منحنية يا نفسي ولماذا تئنين فيّ. ترجي الله لاني بعد احمده خلاص وجهي والهي

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.