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 Psalme of David. When he was in the wildernesse of Judah. O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drye land without water.

2 So, I want to see you in your temple; I want to see that you are great and glorious.

Thus I beholde thee as in the Sanctuarie, when I beholde thy power and thy glorie.

3 Your constantly loving [me] is (worth more/more precious) than [my] life, so I [MTY] will [always] praise you.

For thy louing kindnesse is better then life: therefore my lippes shall prayse thee.

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 magnifie thee all my life, and lift vp mine hands in thy name.

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.

My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lippes,

6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,

When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.

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 bene mine helper, therefore vnder the shadow of thy wings wil I reioyce.

8 I cling to you; and with your hand/power you protect me.

My soule cleaueth vnto thee: for thy right hand vpholdeth me.

9 But those who are trying to kill me will [die and] descend into the place of the dead;

Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.

10 they will be killed in battles [MTY] and their [corpses] will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.

They shall cast him downe with the edge of the sword, and they shall be a portion for 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 reioyce in God, and all that sweare by him shall reioyce in him: for the mouth of them that speake lyes, shall be stopped.