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Psalms is essentially a book of prayers and praises; most of the psalms are addressed to God, but here we also find proclamations of the works of the Lord, descriptions of man’s plight, curses invoked on enemies, songs in praise of the King or of the city of Jerusalem, and exhortations to the good life. The Psalms date back as early as the time of the great King David, but they are so evocative...

63:2–4. His desire for God is intensified by previous experience of meeting him in the temple; the psalmist realizes that there is nothing to compare with it, not even life itself (vv. 2–3). He praises God, for making himself (his “Name”) known (v. 4). “The soul that truly loves God cannot desire to be satisfied and content until it has full possession of him. All the things which are not God not only fail to satisfy the soul, they increase its desire to see him as he is” (St John of the Cross, Spiritual
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