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 Gad the prophet saith unto David, 'Thou dost not abide in a fortress, go, and thou hast entered for thee the land of Judah;' and David goeth and entereth the forest of Hareth.

And David abideth in the wilderness, in fortresses, and abideth in the hill-country, in the wilderness of Ziph; and Saul seeketh him all the days, and God hath not given him into his hand.

And the Ziphites come in unto Saul, at Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself in the height of Hachilah, on the front of the desert?'

see ye, I am tarrying in the plains of the wilderness till the coming in of a word from you to declare to me.'

Thou

And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my God.'

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

He is saying of Jehovah, 'My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,'

My God Thou art, and I confess Thee, My God, I exalt Thee.

Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God -- Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.

At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

Jesus saith to her, 'Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

Early

Jehovah, at morning Thou hearest my voice, At morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Dry and thirsty land, where no water is

and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, 'Why is this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.

'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

General references

In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.