62:1. A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. 62:2. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! 62:3. In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory. 62:4. For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. 62:5. Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands. 62:6. Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. 62:7. If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning: 62:8. Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: 62:9. My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me. 62:10. But they have fought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth: 62:11. They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes. 62:12. But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things. Psalms Chapter 63 Exaudi Deus orationem. A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors. 63:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. 63:2. Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy. 63:3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. 63:4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, 63:5. To shoot in secret the undefiled. 63:6. They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them? 63:7. They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart: A deep heart. . .That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs; which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power. 63:8. And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: The arrows of children are their wounds. . .That is, the wounds, stripes, or blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like the weak efforts of children's arrows, which can do no execution: and their tongues, that is, their speeches against them come to nothing. 63:9. And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled; 63:10. And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings. 63:11. The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised. Psalms Chapter 64 Te decet. God is to be praised in his church, to which all nations shall be called.