OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 63:1

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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.

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Verse 1. David, in distress. Euseb. and so forth—It has no relation to any historical fact. But it expresses the sentiments of any just man, surrounded with danger. S. Hil.—Yet many apply it to Daniel, in the lion’s den, (Muis.) to the captives, ( Calmet.) or to Jesus Christ and his Church. Saint Augustine and so forth Bible.

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