Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Dry and thirsty land, where no water is

General references

Bible References

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1 Samuel 22:5
Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Leave and return to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
1 Samuel 23:14
David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.
1 Samuel 26:1
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah saying, “David is hiding on the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon.”
2 Samuel 15:28
Remember, I’ll wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Thou

Psalm 31:14
But I trust in You, Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”
Psalm 42:11
Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
Psalm 91:2
I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
Psalm 118:28
You are my God, and I will give You thanks.
You are my God; I will exalt You.
Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do Your will,
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.
Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my song;
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise Him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Jeremiah 31:1
“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
Zechariah 13:9
I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”
John 20:17
“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

Early

Psalm 5:3
At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.
Psalm 78:34
When He killed some of them,
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.
Job 8:5
But if you earnestly seek God
and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Proverbs 1:27
when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when trouble and stress overcome you.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me,
and those who search for me find me.
Song of Songs 3:1
In my bed at night
I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but did not find him.
Hosea 5:15
I will depart and return to My place
until they recognize their guilt and seek My face;
they will search for Me in their distress.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

Dry and thirsty land, where no water is

Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted there for water, and grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
Isaiah 32:2
Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain,
like streams of water in a dry land
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
Isaiah 35:7
the parched ground will become a pool of water,
and the thirsty land springs of water.
In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
Isaiah 41:18
I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.
Matthew 12:43
“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

General references

Amos 8:13
In that day the beautiful young women,
the young men also, will faint from thirst.

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