Psalms 63
1 God, you are the God whom I [worship]. I greatly desire to be with you like [SIL] a person in a dry hot desert greatly desires [some cool water].
A psalm of David when he was in the desert of Edom. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!
2 So, I want to see you in your temple; I want to see that you are great and glorious.
In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.
3 Your constantly loving [me] is (worth more/more precious) than [my] life, so I [MTY] will [always] praise you.
For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips shall praise.
4 I will praise you all the time that I live; I will lift up my hands to you while I pray.
Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
5 [Knowing you satisfies me more than] [IDM, MET] my eating a very big feast, [so] I will praise you while I sing [MTY] joyful songs.
Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,
If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:
7 because you have always helped me, and I sing joyfully knowing that I am protected by you [as a little bird is protected] under [its mother’s] wings [MET].
Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings:
8 I cling to you; and with your hand/power you protect me.
My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.
9 But those who are trying to kill me will [die and] descend into the place of the dead;
But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:
10 they will be killed in battles [MTY] and their [corpses] will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.
They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.
11 But I, the king [of Israel], will rejoice in what God has done; and all those who revere and trust God will praise him, but he will not allow liars to say anything.
But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.
