Psalms 63:2
Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
In Context
1For the end, a Psalm of David.
Cross References
Exodus 33:18And Moses says, Manifest thyself to me.
1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the Lord and be strong, seek his face continually.
Psalms 27:4Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompence unto them.
Psalms 43:4For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.
Psalms 73:17Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.
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 →