Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.

New American Standard Bible

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

King James Version

{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;

Holman Bible

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

International Standard Version

God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.

A Conservative Version

O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

American Standard Version

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

Amplified

O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;
My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Bible in Basic English

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Darby Translation

{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 languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

King James 2000

[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Lexham Expanded Bible

O God, you [are] my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you [as] in a dry and weary land without water.

Modern King James verseion

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{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 also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

NET Bible

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

New Heart English Bible

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

The Emphasized Bible

O God, my GOD, thou art, Earnestly do I desire thee, - My soul thirsteth for thee, My flesh fainteth for thee, In a land - dry, and weary for want of water, -

Webster

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;

World English Bible

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Youngs Literal Translation

A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 63:1

References

Images Psalm 63:1

Prayers for Psalm 63:1

Context Readings

Praise God Who Satisfies

1 Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water. 2 Thus in the holy place I saw thee, to see thy strength and thy glory.



Cross References

Psalm 84:2

My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.

Psalm 143:6

I spread out my hands to thee: my soul as a weary land for thee. Silence.

Exodus 15:2

Jehovah my strength and song, and he shall be to me for salvation: this my God, and I will cause him to rest; the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Psalm 42:1-2

To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.

Psalm 118:28

Thou my God, and I will praise thee: my God, I will exalt thee.

Job 8:5

If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;

Psalm 5:3

O Jehovah, the morning thou wilt hear my voice; the morning I will set in order to thee, and I will look about.

Psalm 31:14

And I trusted upon thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my God.

Psalm 42:11

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

Psalm 78:34

When he slew them and they sought him, and they turned back and sought for God.

Psalm 91:2

Saying to Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress: my God, I will trust in thee

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

Psalm 119:81

My soul failed for thy, salvation: I hoped for thy word.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.

Proverbs 1:27-28

In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

Proverbs 8:17

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

Song of Songs 3:1-3

Upon my bed in the night I sought him whom my soul loved: I sought him, and I found him not

Isaiah 32:2

And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.

Jeremiah 31:33

For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.

Hosea 5:15

I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.

Exodus 17:3

And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

1 Samuel 22:5

And the prophet Gad will say to David, Thou shalt not dwell in the fortress; go, and come in for thyself to the land of Judah. And David will go and come to the thicket of Hareth.

1 Samuel 23:14-16

And David will dwell in the desert in fastnesses, and he will dwell in the mountain in the desert of Ziph. And Saul will seek him all the days, and God save him not into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:23-25

And see ye, and know of all the hiding places where he will hide there, and turn back to me prepared, and I went with you: and it being if he is on earth, and I sought him in all the thousands of Judah.

1 Samuel 26:1-3

And the Ziphites will come to Saul to the hill, saying, Is not David hiding in the hill of Hachilah, upon the face of the desert?

2 Samuel 15:28

See me lingering in Araboth of the desert till word come from you to announce to me.

Song of Songs 5:8

I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye shall find my beloved, what ye shall announce to him: I am pierced by love.

Isaiah 35:7

And the dry was for a pool, and the thirsty land for fountains of water: in the dwelling of jackals its lying down, an enclosure for the reed and the bulrush

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers upon naked hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will set the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land for goings forth of water.

Jeremiah 31:1

In that time, says Jehovah, I will be for God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to me for a people.

Zechariah 13:9

And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

Matthew 12:43

And when the unclean spirit has gone out from a man, he passes through sterile places, seeking rest, and finds not.

John 7:37

In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

John 20:17

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

Revelation 7:16-17

They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat.

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