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 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ps 18:35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
• Ps 73:23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
• Song 2:6His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.
• Ps 37:24Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
• Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Ps 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
• Ps 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• Phil 2:12–13So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Gen 32:26–28The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”
• Matt 11:12From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
• Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Luke 18:5–7yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”
• 2 Chr 31:21In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
• Song 3:2I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Ps 143:6–7I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

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