Psalms 63
1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea. O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways.
2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
By a deserted land, both inaccessible and waterless, so I have appeared in the sanctuary before you, in order to behold your virtue and your glory.
3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.
4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
Let my soul be filled, as if with marrow and fatness; and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips.
6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
When I have remembered you on my bed in the morning, I will meditate on you.
7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
For you have been my helper. And I will exult under the cover of your wings.
8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Truly, the king will rejoice in God: all those who swear by him will be praised, because the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked.
