Psalms 63:1

Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to you; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

In Context

2You have sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity; 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:2He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God and I will glorify him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

1 Samuel 22:5And Gad the prophet said to David, Dwell not in the hold: go, and you shall enter the land of Juda. So David went, and came and lived in the city of Saric.

1 Samuel 23:23Take notice, then, and learn, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass that if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Juda.

1 Samuel 26:3And Saul encamped in the hill of Echela in front of Jessemon, by the way, and David lived in the wilderness: and David saw that Saul + 26:3 Gr. comes. came after him into the wilderness.

1 Chronicles 16:14He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

Psalms 5:3In the morning you shall hear my voice: in the morning will I wait upon you, and will look up. 1

Matthew Henry on Psalms 63:1

This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David's psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul's epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David's psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness. That which grieved him most in his banishment was the want of public ordinances; these he here longs to be restored to the enjoyment of; and the present want did but whet his appetite. Yet it is not the ordinances, but the God of… Read the whole commentary →

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