He is like a tree planted beside streams of water
that bears its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are disjointed;
my heart is like wax,
melting within me.

BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.

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

They will vanish like water that flows by;
they will aim their useless arrows.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride.
They utter curses and lies.

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.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.

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.

The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
Your arrows flashed back and forth.

He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.

He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.
But can He also provide bread
or furnish meat for His people?”

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

They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.

They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a stream in the desert.

Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained.

He turns rivers into desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,

He turns a desert into a pool of water,
dry land into springs of water.

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

Reach down from heaven;
rescue me from deep water, and set me free
from the grasp of foreigners