Psalms

(63) A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea.

¹O God, my God, I cry to you early; my soul has thirsted for you: how often has my flesh longed after you, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

²Thus have I appeared before you in the sanctuary, that I might see your power and your glory.

³For your mercy is better than ¹ life: my lips shall praise you.

⁴Thus will I bless you during my life: I will lift up my hands in your name.

⁵Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise your name.

⁶² Forasmuch as I have remembered you on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on you.

⁷For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice.

⁸My soul has ³ kept very close behind you: your right hand has upheld me.

⁹But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.

¹⁰They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.

¹¹But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped.

1. Gr. lives.
2. Gr. if. See Acts 26:23
3. Gr. been glued.