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 forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
• Ps 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
• Ps 42:1–2As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Ps 91:2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
• Rev 7:16–17They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
• Isa 41:18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
• Ps 5:3My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
• John 7:37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
• Ps 118:28Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
• Prov 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• 1 Sam 22:5And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
• 1 Sam 23:23–25See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
• Song 3:1–3By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Jer 31:1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Prov 1:27–28When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Ps 31:14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
• Ps 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Job 8:5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
• Ps 78:34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
• Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Isa 35:7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
• Exod 17:3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
• John 20:17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
• Ps 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
• Song 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
• 1 Sam 26:1–3And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
• Matt 12:43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
• 2 Sam 15:28See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
• Isa 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
• 1 Sam 23:14–16And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

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