- 63O 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. 2To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary. 3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. 4Thus will I bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. 5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips 6when I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you in the night watches. 7Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice. 8My soul follows hard after you. Your right hand upholds me.
- 9But those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 10They shall fall by the sword. They shall be a portion for foxes. 11But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone that swears by him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm 63
A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.