Psalms 63:1

In the desert, David earnestly seeks God, his whole being thirsting for him like a parched land for water. It expresses deep, personal longing for God himself.

Cross-references · 36

• Ps 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
• Ps 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 42:1–2For 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.
• Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
• Ps 91:2I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
• Rev 7:16–17‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
• Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
• Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
• Ps 5:3In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.
• John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• Ps 118:28You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
• Prov 8:17I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
• 1 Sam 22:5Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
• 1 Sam 23:23–25Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
• Song 3:1–3On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
• Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
• Jer 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
• Prov 1:27–28when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Ps 31:14But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
• Ps 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
• Job 8:5But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
• Ps 78:34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Isa 35:7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
• Exod 17:3But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
• John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• Ps 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
• Song 5:8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
• 1 Sam 26:1–3Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
• Matt 12:43When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
• 2 Sam 15:28See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
• Isa 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
• 1 Sam 23:14–16And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

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