Psalm 63:1

New International Reader's Version

God, you are my God. I seek you with all my heart. With all my strength I thirst for you in this dry desert where there isn’t any water.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:28

I’ll wait at the place in the desert where we can go across the Jordan River. I’ll wait there until you send word to let me know what’s happening.”

1 Chronicles 16:14

He is the Lord our God. He judges the whole earth.

Job 8:5

But seek God with all your heart. Make your appeal to the Mighty One.

Psalm 118:28

You are my God, and I will praise you. You are my God, and I will honor you.

Psalm 119:81

I deeply long for you to save me. I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do what you want, because you are my God. May your good Spirit lead me on a level path.

Psalm 143:6

I spread out my hands to you in prayer. I’m thirsty for you, just as dry ground is thirsty for rain.

Psalm 31:14

But I trust in you, Lord. I say, “You are my God.”

Psalm 42:11

My spirit, why are you so sad? Why are you so upset deep down inside me? Put your hope in God. Once again I will have reason to praise him. He is my Savior and my God.

Psalm 5:3

Lord, in the morning you hear my voice. In the morning I pray to you. I wait for you in hope.

Psalm 78:34

Every time God killed some of them, the others would seek him. They gladly turned back to him again.

Psalm 84:2

I can’t wait to be in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple. I really want to be there. My whole being cries out for the living God.

Psalm 91:2

I will say about the Lord, “He is my place of safety. He is like a fort to me. He is my God. I trust in him.”

Exodus 15:2

The Lord gives me strength and protects me. He has saved me. He is my God, I will praise him. He is my father’s God, and I will honor him.

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty for water there. So they told Moses they weren’t happy with him. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt? Did you want us, our children and our livestock to die of thirst?”

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me. Those who look for me find me.

Song of Solomon 5:8

Women of Jerusalem, make me a promise. If you find the one who loves me, tell him our love has made me weak.”

Isaiah 32:2

Each official will be like a place to get out of the wind. He will be like a place to hide from storms. He’ll be like streams of water flowing in the desert. He’ll be like the shadow of a huge rock in a dry and thirsty land.

Isaiah 35:7

The burning sand will become a pool of water. The thirsty ground will become bubbling springs. In the places where wild dogs once lay down, tall grass and papyrus will grow.

Isaiah 41:18

I will make streams flow on the bare hilltops. I will make springs come up in the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water. I will turn the dry and cracked ground into flowing springs.

Jeremiah 31:1

“At that time I will be the God of all the families of Israel,” announces the Lord. “And they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 31:33

“This is the covenant I will make with Israel after that time,” announces the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds. I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God. And they will be my people.

Hosea 5:15

I will go back to my lion’s den. I will stay there until they pay the price for their sin. Then they will turn to me. They will suffer so much that they will really want me to help them.”

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third in the fire. I will make them as pure as silver. I will test them like gold. They will call out to me. And I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people.’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Matthew 12:43

“What happens when an evil spirit comes out of a person? It goes through dry areas looking for a place to rest. But it doesn’t find it.

Matthew 6:33

But put God’s kingdom first. Do what he wants you to do. Then all those things will also be given to you.

John 20:17

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me. I have not yet ascended to the Father. Instead, go to those who believe in me. Tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

John 7:37

It was the last and most important day of the feast. Jesus stood up and spoke in a loud voice. He said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.

1 Samuel 22:5

But the prophet Gad spoke to David. He said, “Don’t stay in your usual place of safety. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.