Psalms 63:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.
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Exodus 15:2The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.
1 Samuel 22:5And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.
1 Samuel 23:23So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.
1 Samuel 26:3And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.
1 Chronicles 16:14He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
Psalms 5:3\5:2\Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 63:1
This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David's psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul's epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David's psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness. That which grieved him most in his banishment was the want of public ordinances; these he here longs to be restored to the enjoyment of; and the present want did but whet his appetite. Yet it is not the ordinances, but the God of… Read the whole commentary →