Psalms 63:1

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Psalms 63:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

2 So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

3 Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

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1 Samuel 22:5

Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:15

While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,

1 Samuel 23:23

Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23:24

So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

1 Samuel 23:25

and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

1 Samuel 26:1

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

1 Samuel 26:3

Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,

2 Samuel 15:28

See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Psalms 31:14

But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

Psalms 42:11

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Psalms 91:2

I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalms 118:28

You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

Psalms 143:10

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Exodus 15:2

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Jeremiah 31:1

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

Jeremiah 31:33

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Zechariah 13:9

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

John 20:17

“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

Psalms 5:3

In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.

Psalms 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Job 8:5

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.

Song of Solomon 3:1

On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

Song of Solomon 3:3

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Psalms 42:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Psalms 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Psalms 84:2

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalms 119:81

My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Psalms 143:6

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Revelation 7:16

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:4

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:5

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

Song of Solomon 5:8

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Isaiah 35:7

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

Matthew 12:43

When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.