Psalms 63:1-8

¹The psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, my God, I wake to thee full early. My soul thirsted to thee; my flesh thirsted to thee full manyfold. In a land forsaken without way, and without water,

²so I appeared to thee in holy; that I should see thy virtue, and thy glory.

³For thy mercy is better than lives or life itself; my lips shall praise thee.

⁴So I shall bless thee in my life; and in thy name I shall raise mine hands.

⁵My soul be ful filled as with inner fatness and uttermore fatness; and my mouth shall praise with lips of full out joying.

⁶So I had mind on thee on my bed, in the morrowtides I shall think of thee;

⁷for thou hast been mine helper. And in the covering of thy wings I shall make full out joy,

⁸my soul cleaved after thee; thy right hand took me up.