Psalm 63

1 O GOD, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You,

my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.   

²So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.   

³Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.   

⁴So will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.   

⁵My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;

and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips   

⁶When I remember You upon my bed and meditate on You in the night watches.  

⁷For You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings will I rejoice.   

⁸My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You;

Your right hand upholds me.   

⁹But those who seek and demand my life to ruin and destroy it shall [themselves be destroyed

and] go into the lower parts of the earth [into the underworld of the dead].   

¹⁰They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a prey for foxes and jackals.   

¹¹But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him

[that is, who binds himself by God's authority, acknowledging His supremacy, and devoting himself to His glory and service alone; every such one] shall glory,

for the mouths of those who speak lies shall be stopped.