Psalm 63

⁶I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

²My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

³³But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

¹⁶‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

¹⁷For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and seek Him in His temple.

⁴Seek out the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

⁴The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

⁵For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

¹¹Seek out the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.

²³I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.

¹⁵O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

⁵For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

³³I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

²Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the Lord!

²Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

²²Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

²³and said: “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul.

²I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

⁷How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

⁸They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

⁶On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

¹⁵As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

¹¹And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord had been laid.

¹²But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

¹⁴⁷I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

¹⁴⁸My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

⁵Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

⁵⁵In the night, O Lord, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.

¹⁷How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

¹⁸If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

⁴Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

⁹Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

³For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

⁴Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

⁸Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

²³Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

³⁵You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

⁶His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

²⁴Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the Lord is holding his hand.

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

¹⁵Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

¹⁴May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

²⁹And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the Lord your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

¹³For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

²¹Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

⁴On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

⁵Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

¹⁰David added, “As surely as the Lord lives, the Lord Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

¹⁷And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

¹⁸You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.

¹Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

²The Philistines hotly pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

¹³Fear the Lord your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!

²³By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

¹⁶Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

¹³When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,