Psalms 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. 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.

Cross References (36)

  • Psalms 143:6 (44)

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

  • Psalms 84:2 (31)

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

  • Psalms 42:1–2 (27)

    For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You,

  • Matthew 6:33 (26)

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

  • Psalms 91:2 (23)

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

  • Revelation 7:16–17 (20)

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

  • Isaiah 41:18 (19)

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

  • Exodus 15:2 (17)

    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 Go

  • John 7:37 (15)

    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

  • Psalms 5:3 (15)

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

  • Psalms 118:28 (14)

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

  • Psalms 143:10 (13)

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

  • Proverbs 8:17 (12)

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

  • Song of Solomon 3:1–3 (9)

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

  • 1 Samuel 23:23–25 (9)

    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 i

  • 1 Samuel 22:5 (9)

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

  • Hosea 5:15 (8)

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

  • Jeremiah 31:1 (8)

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

  • Proverbs 1:27–28 (8)

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

  • Zechariah 13:9 (8)

    This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My n

  • Psalms 31:14 (8)

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

  • Psalms 78:34 (7)

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

  • Psalms 42:11 (7)

    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 an

  • Job 8:5 (7)

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

  • Isaiah 35:7 (6)

    The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there wil

  • Jeremiah 31:33 (6)

    “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

  • Psalms 102:3–5 (6)

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

  • John 20:17 (5)

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

  • Exodus 17:3 (5)

    But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make

  • Psalms 119:81 (4)

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

  • Song of Solomon 5:8 (4)

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

  • 1 Samuel 26:1–3 (3)

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

  • Matthew 12:43 (2)

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

  • 2 Samuel 15:28 (2)

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

  • Isaiah 32:2 (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

  • 1 Samuel 23:14–16 (1)

    And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul sea