Psalms 63:2
Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
In Context
1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
3You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.
Cross References
Exodus 33:18And he said, “Show me your glory.”
1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the Lord and his virtue. Seek his face always.
Psalms 27:4Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.
Psalms 43:4For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.
Psalms 73:17You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 63:2-3
Devout Affections. 1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. The title tells us when the psalm was penned, when David was in the wilderness of Judah; that is, in the forest of Hareth ( 1 Sam. xxii. 5 ) or in the wilderness of Ziph, 1 Sam. xxiii. 15 . 1. Even in Canaan, though a fruitful land and the people numerous, yet there were… Read the whole commentary →