Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Majority Standard Bible

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, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:18Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”

1 Chronicles 16:11Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Psalms 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

Psalms 78:61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the 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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