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 wilderness of Idumea. O God, my God, I cry to you early; my soul has thirsted for you: how often has my flesh [longed] after you, in a barren and trackless and dry land!
2 So, I want to see you in your temple; I want to see that you are great and glorious.
Thus have I appeared before you in the sanctuary, that I might see your power and your glory.
3 Your constantly loving [me] is (worth more/more precious) than [my] life, so I [MTY] will [always] praise you.
For your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise you.
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 you during my life: I will lift up my hands in your 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.
Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and [my] joyful lips shall praise your name.
6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,
Forasmuch as I have remembered you on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on you.
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].
For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice.
8 I cling to you; and with your hand/power you protect me.
My soul has kept very close behind you: your right hand has upheld me.
9 But those who are trying to kill me will [die and] descend into the place of the dead;
But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.
10 they will be killed in battles [MTY] and their [corpses] will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.
They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions 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 rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped.
