Psalms 63:8

David's soul clings closely to God, and God's right hand holds him fast. It pictures mutual nearness: the believer clinging, God upholding.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 41:10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ps 18:35Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
• Ps 73:23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
• Song 2:6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
• Ps 37:24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
• Ps 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
• Isa 42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• Ps 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
• Ps 41:12And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
• Col 1:29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Phil 2:12–13Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• Gen 32:26–28And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
• Matt 11:12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
• Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
• Luke 18:5–7Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
• 2 Chr 31:21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
• Song 3:2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Ps 143:6–7I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

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