Psalms 63:1

O God, my God, you, you do I seek: my heart thirsts for you, my body faints for you in a parched and waterless land.

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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

2As I in the temple have seen you, beholding your power and your glory,

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Cross References

Psalms 5:3When I pray to you, Lord, in the morning, hear my voice. I make ready for you in the morning, and look for a sign.

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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