Psalm 42 (Hope in God) by Shane Heilman As the deer pants for the stream So pants my soul for You, O God My soul thirsts for the living God When shall I come and meet with God My tears have been my food day and night While they say, “Where is your God?” These things I remember While I pour out my soul How I used to go with the crowd To the house of God I used to lead the way With shouts of joy and songs of praise A multitude of saints in joyous celebration Why are you cast down, my soul? Why are you so sad within me? Hope in God For I will yet praise Him Hope in God My salvation and my God My soul is in despair within me Therefore I remember You From this distant, lonely land From these hills of exile Deep calls to deep at the sound Of Your waterfalls All Your breakers and Your waves They have gone over me The LORD will command His love in the daytime And His song will be with me at night A prayer to the God of my life I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?” Why are you cast down, my soul? Why are you so sad within me? Hope in God For I will yet praise Him Hope in God My salvation And my God Why do I mourn the oppression of my enemies? Like a fatal wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me While they say all the day long, “Where is your God now?” Why are you cast down, my soul? Why are you so sad within me? Hope in God For I will yet praise Him Hope in God My salvation My salvation My salvation and my God