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Wishing to Be Near God

A psalm of David when he was in the ·desert [wilderness] of Judah [C fleeing from a jealous Saul; 1 Sam. 21–31].

63 God, you are my God.
    I ·search for [am intent on] you.
I thirst for you [42:1–2]
    ·like someone [or my flesh yearns for you] in a dry, ·empty [exhausted; weary] land
    where there is no water.
I have seen you in ·the Temple [L the Holy Place; or holiness]
    and have seen your strength and glory.
Because your ·love [loyalty] is better than life,
    ·I [L My lips] will praise you.
I will ·praise [bless] you ·as long as I live [L with my life].
    I will lift up my hands in your name [C in prayer].
I will be ·content as if I had eaten the best foods [L satisfied as with fat and fatness].
    My lips will sing, and my mouth will praise you.

I remember you while I’m lying in bed;
    I ·think about [meditate on] you through the watches of the night [C the night was divided into four watches of three hours each].
You are my help.
    ·Because of your protection [L In the shadow of your wings; C an image of compassion or perhaps a reference to the cherubim whose wings covered the Ark of the Covenant; Ex. 25:20], I sing.
I ·stay close [cling] to you;
    ·you support me with your right hand [L your right hand sustains me].

·Some people are trying to kill me [L They seek my life for ruin],
    but they will go down to the ·grave [L underbelly of the earth].
10 They will be ·killed with swords [L handed over to the sword]
    and ·eaten by wild dogs [L be the prey of jackals].
11 But the king will rejoice in his God.
    All who ·make promises in his name [L swear by him] will praise him,
but the mouths of liars will be shut.

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