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;

1A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou <FI>art<Fi> 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.

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.

2So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.

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.

3Because better <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness than life, My lips do 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.

4So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

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;

5As <FI>with<Fi> milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And <FI>with<Fi> singing lips doth my mouth praise.

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.

6If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches--I meditate on Thee.

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.

7For Thou hast been a help to me, And in the shadow of Thy wings I sing.

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

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

8Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.

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.

9And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to 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.

10They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

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.

11And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!