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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and appear before God?[a]
My tears have been food for me day and night,
while people are saying to me all day,
“Where is your God?”

I am overcome by my emotions
whenever I remember these things:
    how I used to arrive with the crowd,
    as I led the procession to the house of God,
    with loud shouts of thanksgiving,
    with the crowd celebrating the festival.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:2 A different reading of the Hebrew verb yields the translation see the face of God.