As one surrounded by darkness, I am lost,
So I will seek my God for guidance.
As one who is beaten and worn, I am weak,
So I will seek my God for strength.
As one surrounded by lions, I am afraid,
So I will seek my God for comfort.
As one who is alone and hurt, I am downcast,
So I will seek my God for joy.
As one who has succumbed to this world, I am sinful,
So I will seek my God for righteousness.

If men ask me “Where do you find your God?”
I will say to them “He is here with me.
Where is it that you find your hope?”
If they say to me “In my future and possessions
Those things which I can see.
Where do you find your God, for I do not see Him?”
I will say “He proves his presence through
provision and protection.
When you lie down and approach the hour of darkness,
When all your possessions and future are no more,
Where then will you find your hope?”
If they claim “I will find hope in a happy life well lived.
And when you arrive at the hour of fate,
Where then will you find your God?”
I will declare “I will find him waiting for me
With arms as wide as the gates that lead to his eternal kingdom,
In which we will live forever and ever.”

Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so depressed within me?
Put your hope in God,
For I will yet praise him,
My Savior and my God.