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 spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
• Ps 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 42:1–2For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Ps 91:2I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
• Rev 7:16–17They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;
• Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
• Ps 5:3Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
• John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
• Ps 118:28You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• 1 Sam 22:5The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
• 1 Sam 23:23–25See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
• Song 3:1–3By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
• Jer 31:1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
• Prov 1:27–28when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Ps 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
• Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
• Job 8:5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
• Ps 78:34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Isa 35:7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
• Exod 17:3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Ps 119:81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
• Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
• 1 Sam 26:1–3The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”
• Matt 12:43When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
• 2 Sam 15:28Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
• Isa 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
• 1 Sam 23:14–16David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

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