< 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 Judah. O God, my God, you, you do I seek: my heart thirsts for you, my body faints for you in a parched and waterless land.
2 So, I want to see you in your temple; I want to see that you are great and glorious.
As I in the temple have seen you, beholding 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 better than life is your kindness: my lips shall utter your praise.
4 I will praise you all the time that I live; I will lift up my hands to you while I pray.
So, while I live, I will bless you, and 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.
As with marrow and fat am I feasted; with joyful lips I will praise you.
6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,
I call you to mind on my bed, and muse on you 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].
for you have been my help, I joyfully sing in the shadow of your wings.
8 I cling to you; and with your hand/power you protect me.
I cling close after you, your right hand holds me up.
9 But those who are trying to kill me will [die and] descend into the place of the dead;
But those who seek after my life shall go down to the depths of the earth,
10 they will be killed in battles [MTY] and their [corpses] will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.
given o’er to the power of the sword, or as prey for jackals to devour.
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 who own his allegiance will glory. For the mouth of the false shall be stopped.

< Psalms 63 >