Psalms 63:1
O God, my GOD, thou art, Earnestly do I desire thee,—My soul thirsteth for thee, My flesh fainteth for thee, In a land—dry, and weary for want of water,—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2In like manner as, in the sanctuary, I have had vision of thee, To behold thy power and thy glory.
Cross References
Exodus 15:2My might and melody, is Yah, And he became mine, by salvation,—This, is my GOD, and I will glorify him, The God of my father and I will set him on high.
1 Samuel 22:5Then said Gad the prophet unto David—Thou must not abide in the fortress, go and get thee into the land of Judah. So David departed, and entered the forest of Hereth.
1 Samuel 23:23See, then, and get to know—of all the hiding places, where he hideth himself, and return unto me, for certainty, then will I go with you,—and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I will search him out, through all the thousands of Judah.
1 Samuel 26:3And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which overlooketh Jeshimon, by the way,—but, David, was staying in the wilderness, so he saw that Saul was coming after him into the wilderness.
1 Chronicles 16:14Yahweh himself, is our God, through all the land, are his just decisions.
Psalms 5:3O Yahweh! in the morning, shalt thou hear my voice, In the morning, will I set in order unto thee, and keep watch;
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 →