Psalm 63:1-8

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Psalm 63^[a]

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

¹You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,^(A)
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.^(B)

²I have seen you in the sanctuary^(C)
    and beheld your power and your glory.^(D)
³Because your love is better than life,^(E)
    my lips will glorify you.
⁴I will praise you as long as I live,^(F)
    and in your name I will lift up my hands.^(G)
⁵I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;^(H)
    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

⁶On my bed I remember you;
    I think of you through the watches of the night.^(I)
⁷Because you are my help,^(J)
    I sing in the shadow of your wings.^(K)
⁸I cling to you;^(L)
    your right hand upholds me.^(M)

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Footnotes

Psalm 63:1 In Hebrew texts 63:1-11 is numbered 63:2-12.

Numbers 12:1-9

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Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam^(A) and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife,^(B) for he had married a Cushite. ²“Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?”^(C) And the Lord heard this.^(D)

³(Now Moses was a very humble man,^(E) more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

⁴At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. ⁵Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud;^(F) he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, ⁶he said, “Listen to my words:

“When there is a prophet among you,
    I, the Lord, reveal^(G) myself to them in visions,^(H)
    I speak to them in dreams.^(I)
⁷But this is not true of my servant Moses;^(J)
    he is faithful in all my house.^(K)
⁸With him I speak face to face,
    clearly and not in riddles;^(L)
    he sees the form of the Lord.^(M)
Why then were you not afraid
    to speak against my servant Moses?”^(N)

⁹The anger of the Lord burned against them,^(O) and he left them.^(P)

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Revelation 18:21-24

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The Finality of Babylon’s Doom

²¹Then a mighty angel^(A) picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea,^(B) and said:

“With such violence
    the great city^(C) of Babylon will be thrown down,
    never to be found again.
²²The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.^(D)
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.^(E)
²³The light of a lamp
    will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
    will never be heard in you again.^(F)
Your merchants were the world’s important people.^(G)
    By your magic spell^(H) all the nations were led astray.
²⁴In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,^(I)
    of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”^(J)