¹ As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so I long for you, God.^(A)
2 I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?^(B)

¹ God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.
I thirst for you;
my body faints for you
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.^(B)

² I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for^[a] the living God.^(A)

⁴⁰ How I long for your precepts!^(A)
Give me life through your righteousness.

¹³¹ I open my mouth and pant^(A)
because I long for your commands.