Psalms 63:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

> God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִ֑ד בִּ֝הְיוֹת֗וֹ בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר יְהוּדָֽה׃

Transliteration

Mizmōr to Dāwid in bihyōtō in midbar Yəhūdāh

Grammar Details

• *Mizmōr*: noun, masculine singular construct - psalm/song
• *leDāwid*: preposition + proper noun - to/for/of David
• *bihyōtō*: preposition + infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his being/when he was
• *bemidbar*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in wilderness of
• *Yəhūdāh*: proper noun - Judah

Word Meanings

• *Mizmōr*: psalm/melody/song
• *bihyōtō*: when he was/during his stay
• *midbar*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land

Referenced Verses

• Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 143:6 : 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
• Ps 42:1-2 : 1 > As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
• Exod 15:2 : 2 Yah 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.
• Isa 41:18 : 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Ps 118:28 : 28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
• Ps 31:14 : 14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."
• Ps 119:81 : 81 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
• Isa 32:2 : 2 A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
• Isa 35:7 : 7 The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
• Jer 31:33 : 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:
• Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I 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.'"
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Matt 12:43 : 43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
• 1 Sam 22:5 : 5 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
• 1 Sam 26:1-3 : 1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert? 2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. 3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
• Job 8:5 : 5 If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.
• Ps 5:3 : 3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
• Ps 42:11 : 11 Why 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.
• Ps 78:34 : 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
• Ps 91:2 : 2 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."
• Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
• Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Prov 1:27-28 : 27 When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you. 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Song 3:1-3 : 1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 2 I 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. 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
• 1 Sam 23:14-16 : 14 David abode 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. 15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. 16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 1 Sam 23:23-25 : 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. 24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
• Exod 17:3 : 3 The 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 7:37 : 37 Now 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!
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus said to her, "Don't touch 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.'"
• Rev 7:16-17 : 16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
• 2 Sam 15:28 : 28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."
• Song 5:8 : 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends