And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season;
Its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity].

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.

As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks,
So my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Evening and morning and at noon I will complain and murmur,
And He will hear my voice.

Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
Let them even be trapped in their pride,
And on account of the curses and lies which they tell.

O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;
My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.

You water its furrows abundantly,
You smooth its ridges;
You soften it with showers,
You bless its growth.

You made men (charioteers) ride over our heads [in defeat];
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a [broad] place of abundance [to be refreshed].

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

May he come down like rain on the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak loftily [with malice].

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],

The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.

I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury them.

You will tread upon the lion and cobra;
The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.

He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water
And a dry land into springs of water;

He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it seeped into his inner self like water
And like [anointing] oil into his bones.

Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of water.

My eyes weep streams of water
Because people do not keep Your law.

“Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be thrown into the fire,
Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.

I reach out my hands to You;
My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.