1. O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
2. To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
3. Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4. Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
6. When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
7. Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
8. My soul follows close after you: your right hand upholds me.
9. But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.