Discovery BoxPsalms 63:1 
ContextA psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. 2
63:1 O God, you are my God! I long for you! 3
My soul thirsts 4 for you,
my flesh yearns for you,
in a dry and parched 5 land where there is no water.
Psalms 63:6
Context63:6 whenever 6 I remember you on my bed,
and think about you during the nighttime hours.
1 sn Psalm 63. The psalmist expresses his intense desire to be in God’s presence and confidently affirms that God will judge his enemies.
2 sn According to the psalm superscription David wrote the psalm while in the “wilderness of Judah.” Perhaps this refers to the period described in 1 Sam 23-24 or to the incident mentioned in 2 Sam 15:23.
3 tn Or “I will seek you.”
4 tn Or “I thirst.”
5 tn Heb “faint” or “weary.” This may picture the land as “faint” or “weary,” or it may allude to the effect this dry desert has on those who are forced to live in it.
6 tn The Hebrew term אִם (’im) is used here in the sense of “when; whenever,” as in Ps 78:34.
