The psalmist opens with the imagery of a deer panting for streams of water, so his soul pants for God. The vivid metaphor of the panting deer establishes the intensity of the psalmist's longing for God, suggesting a thirst as profound as the physical thirst of a hunted animal. This opening establishes that the psalmist's deepest need is for encounter with God. The entire psalm expresses this longing and the struggle that accompanies it.

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