For the end, [A Psalm] of instruction, for the sons of Korah. As the deer earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for You, O God.

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?

I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

My soul faints for Your salvation; I have hoped in Your words.

For I have become as a bottle in the frost; [yet] I have not forgotten Your statutes.

Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like them that go down to the pit.

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you should find my kinsman, what are you to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.

And Sarah said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me.

And she said, Who shall say to Abraham that Sarah suckles a child? For I have born a child in my old age.

And Israel said to Joseph, After this I will [gladly] die, since I have seen your face, for you are yet living.

And she said, I pray, my lord, as your soul lives, I am the woman that stood in your presence with you while praying to the Lord.

And I lend him to the Lord all his days that he lives, a loan to the Lord: and she said,

But I shall appear in righteousness before Your face: I shall be satisfied when Your glory appears.

And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

And He put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God; many shall see [it] and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

"Lord, now You are releasing Your servant in peace, according to Your word;

for my eyes have seen Your salvation

Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

She is a tree of life to all that lay hold of her, and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life, but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

In the middle of its street, and on both sides of the river [was the] tree of life, producing twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree [are] for the healing of the nations.