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Psalm 63 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
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  • 1965
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1 A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. 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;
1 A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. 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.
2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.
2 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
3 Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4 So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
4 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
6 When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
6 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.
7 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
8 My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
8 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
9 But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.
10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
11 But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 143:6; Psalm 84:2; Psalm 42:1–2; Matthew 6:33; Psalm 91:2
  2. 2 Psalm 27:4; Psalm 105:4; Psalm 84:2–11; Psalm 96:6; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6
  3. 3 Philippians 1:23; Psalm 51:15; Psalm 69:16; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 30:5
  4. 4 Psalm 104:33; Psalm 134:2; Psalm 28:2; 1 Kings 8:22–66; Psalm 145:1–3
  5. 5 Psalm 36:7–9; Isaiah 25:6; Psalm 17:15; Psalm 43:4; Ezra 3:11–13
  6. 6 Psalm 42:8; Psalm 119:147–148; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 119:55; Psalm 139:17–18
  7. 7 2 Corinthians 1:10; Psalm 61:4; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 54:3–4; Psalm 17:8
  8. 8 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 73:23; Psalm 18:35; Song of Songs 2:6; Psalm 37:24
  9. 9 Psalm 55:15; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 40:14; 1 Samuel 25:29; Isaiah 14:19
  10. 10 Jeremiah 18:21; Ezekiel 39:4; Ezekiel 35:5; 1 Samuel 26:10; Ezekiel 39:17–20
  11. 11 Deuteronomy 6:13; Psalm 21:1; Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 65:16; Romans 3:19

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXII)

    The title of it is, "Unto the end, in behalf of Idithun, a Psalm to David himself." I recollect that already to you hath been explained what Idithun is....Let us see how far he hath leaped over, and whom he hath "leaped over," and in what place, though he hath leaped over certain men, he is situate, whence as from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 63:3 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXVIII–XXXI)

    39. But "because Thy loving-kindness is better than life," behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between Thee, The One, and us the many,--in many distractions amid many things,--that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 63:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXVIII–XXXI)

    But "because Thy loving-kindness is better than life," behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between Thee, The One, and us the many,--in many distractions amid many things,--that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from my …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 63:1 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XVI–XIX)

    Therefore unto Thee is my soul as "land where no water is," because as it cannot of itself enlighten itself, so it cannot of itself satisfy itself.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)