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Writing again from his desert hideout, David calls out to God “God, you are my Almighty and I will seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and weary land without water.” The metaphor is apt, as we saw in Chapter 62. It makes sense that David would use natural images in his prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This metaphor also reminds us of the thirst and waterless travels and trials of the Israelites as they wandered the wilderness for forty years. Three times in the books of Exodus and Numbers we see the Israelites thirsting for water. The more famous incidents are the twin rock stories. In the first, Moses hits the rock at the behest of God to bring forth water. In the second tragic incident, instead of speaking to the rock, Moses yet again hits the rock. God punishes Moses and declares that he will not be able to enter the Land of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But our Psalm I think references an earlier incident soon after the exodus in Exodus 15:22. Three days after the splitting of the sea, the people complained of thirst due to a brackish well. God instructs Moses to throw a piece of wood into the brackish waters making them potable yet again. The commentators latch on to the emphasis on three days to teach a lesson that one should not go three days without studying Torah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With this in mind, we can return to Psalm 63 verse 2. Notice that David says that it is his soul that thirsts for God. He does not say he is thirsty. 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