Psalms 63

1Unto the end, a psalm for David.

1 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 OGod, thou art myGod; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

2Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

2To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

2 To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary;

3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

3Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

3 For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

4For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

4So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.

4 So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.

5To shoot in secret the undefiled.

5My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;

5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips.

6They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

6When 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 thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:

7They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

7Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

7 For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy.

8And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

8My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.

8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

9And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

9But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth;

10And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.

10They 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 the portion of foxes.

11The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

11But 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 inGod; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.