As the hart panteth. — “I have seen large flocks of these panting harts gather round the water-brooks in the great deserts of central Syria, so subdued by thirst that you could approach quite near them before they fled” (Thomson, Land and Book, p. 172).
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Psalms 42:1
1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.