Psalm 63:1

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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;

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Early

Dry and thirsty land, where no water is

Matthew 12:43

General references

Amos 8:13

Bible References

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And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and abode in the mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, facing the waste?

See, I will stop in the plains of the desert, until there come word from you to inform me.

Thou

But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

I say of Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress; my God, I will confide in him.

Thou art my God, and I will give thee thanks; my God, I will exalt thee.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: let thy good Spirit lead me in a plain country.

My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him.

At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

Early

Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.

When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;

If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Dry and thirsty land, where no water is

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of wild dogs, where they lay down, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.

But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

General references

In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;