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. God, you are my God! I earnestly search for you, my soul thirsts for you, and my flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
2 So, I want to see you in your temple; I want to see that you are great and glorious.
So I have looked on you in the sanctuary, to 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.
Because your covenant faithfulness is better than life, my lips will praise you.
4 I will praise you all the time that I live; I will lift up my hands to you while I pray.
So I will bless you while I live; 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.
It will be as if I ate a meal of marrow and fatness; with joyful lips my mouth will praise you,
6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you. I think/meditate about you all during the night,
when I think about you on my bed and meditate on you in the night hours.
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, and in the shadow of your wings I rejoice.
8 I cling to you; and with your hand/power you protect me.
I cling to you; your right hand supports me.
9 But those who are trying to kill me will [die and] descend into the place of the dead;
But those who seek to destroy my life will go down into the lowest parts of the earth;
10 they will be killed in battles [MTY] and their [corpses] will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.
they will be given over to those whose hands use the sword, and they will become food for the jackals.
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 will rejoice in God; everyone who swears by him will be proud of him, but the mouth of those who speak lies will be stopped up.
