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(4) I recall, as my feelings well up within me,
how I’d go with the crowd to the house of God,
with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs
observing the festival.

(5) My soul, why are you so downcast?
Why are you groaning inside me?
Hope in God, since I will praise him again
for the salvation that comes from his presence.
(6) My God, when I feel so downcast,
I remind myself of you
from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon,
from the hill Mizar.

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Why, my soul, are you downcast?(A)
    Why so disturbed(B) within me?
Put your hope in God,(C)
    for I will yet praise(D) him,
    my Savior(E) and my God.(F)

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember(G) you
from the land of the Jordan,(H)
    the heights of Hermon(I)—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep(J)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(K)

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