1Deer pant, desiring to drink water from a stream when there is a drought (OR, when they are being pursued by hunters.)
2I desire to have fellowship with [MET] you, the all-powerful God.
3Every day and every night I cry;
4I am very distressed [IDM] as I remember
5So I say to myself, “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ]
6But now, Yahweh, I am very discouraged [IDM],
7But here, the great sorrow that I feel is like water that you send down [MET];
8Yahweh shows me each day that he faithfully loves me,
9I say to God, who is like an overhanging rock under which I can hide [MET],
10They make fun of me constantly;
11But I think,