Psalms 63:2
As I in the temple have seen you, beholding your power and your glory,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
In Context
3for better than life is your kindness: my lips shall utter your praise.
Cross References
Psalms 27:4One thing have I asked of the Lord, and that do I long for – To live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the grace of the Lord and inquire in his temple.
Psalms 43:4Then will I go to God’s altar, to God my rejoicing; and with joy on the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God.
Psalms 73:17till I entered the holy world of God and saw clearly their destiny.
Psalms 78:61He gave his strength up to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe.
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 →