Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary, || To behold Your strength and Your glory.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

In Context

1A PSALM OF DAVID, IN HIS BEING IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDAH. O God, You [are] my God, earnestly I seek You, || My soul has thirsted for You, || My flesh has longed for You, || In a dry and weary land, without waters.

3Because better [is] Your kindness than life, || My lips praise You.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:18And he says, “Please show me Your glory”;

1 Chronicles 16:11Seek YHWH and His strength, || Seek His face continually.

Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, || All the days of my life, || To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, || And to inquire in His temple.

Psalms 43:4And I go to the altar of God, || To God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank You with a harp, O God, my God.

Psalms 73:17Until I come into the sanctuaries of God, || I attend to their latter end.

Psalms 78:61And He gives His strength to captivity, || And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

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 →

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