Psalm 63:1 (WEB)
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“Therefore unto Thee is my soul as “land where no water is,” because as it cannot of itself enlighten itself, so it cannot of itself satisfy itself.” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Who, O Lord, unless Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which “thirsteth after Thee”?” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6, and lxiii. 1.
Read the whole comment““God, my God, unto Thee from the light I watch” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For good were it for thee to say to God, “My soul hath thirsted for Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6; Ps. lxiii. 1; Matt. v. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Thus was I seen by Thee in the sanctuary.’” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1, 2, LXX.
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Jerome
“…for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary,” or, as he sings in another place, “lo, then would I wander far off and remain in the wilderness.” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“…the fountains of lust and to sing in the words of the psalm: “as in a dry and pathless and waterless land, so have I appeared unto thee in the sanctuary.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1, 2, Vulg.
Read the whole comment“…of her mind and the yearning of her believing soul; both of which made her sing in David’s words, “My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth after thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1.
Read the whole comment“So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxiii. 1–3 R.V.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Further he provided the nourishment of the Word, and that more perfect bounty and distribution, which is really heavenly and from on high—if the word be that bread of angels, wherewith souls are fed and given to drink, who are a hungered for God, and seek for a food which does not pass away or fail, but abides forever.” — editor's note: Ib. lxiii. 1; S. Matt. v. 6.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
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Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.16.