Psalm 63:1-5

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Psalm 63^[a]

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

¹You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,^(A)
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.^(B)

²I have seen you in the sanctuary^(C)
    and beheld your power and your glory.^(D)
³Because your love is better than life,^(E)
    my lips will glorify you.
⁴I will praise you as long as I live,^(F)
    and in your name I will lift up my hands.^(G)
⁵I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;^(H)
    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

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Footnotes

Psalm 63:1 In Hebrew texts 63:1-11 is numbered 63:2-12.

Psalm 143:5-6

New International Version

⁵I remember^(A) the days of long ago;
    I meditate^(B) on all your works
    and consider what your hands have done.
⁶I spread out my hands^(C) to you;
    I thirst for you like a parched land.^[a]

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Footnotes

Psalm 143:6 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

John 4:7-14

New International Version

⁷When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”^(A) ⁸(His disciples had gone into the town^(B) to buy food.)

⁹The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan^(C) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.^[a])

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”^(D)

¹¹“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well^(E) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.^(F) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^(G) welling up to eternal life.”^(H)

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