Psalms 63:1

For the end, a Psalm of David. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; 1 Deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:2He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: 1 This is my God, and I will glorify him; 1 My father’s God, and I will exalt him. 1

1 Samuel 22:5And Gad the prophet said to David, Dwell not in the hold: go, and thou shalt enter the land of Judah. So David went, and came and dwelt in the city of Hereth.

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 Judah.

1 Samuel 26:3And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah in front of Jeshimon, by the way, and David dwelt in the wilderness: and David saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

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

Psalms 5:3Attend to the voice of my supplication, 1 My King, and my God: 1 For to thee, O Lord, will I pray. 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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