Psalms 63:3
for better than life is your kindness: my lips shall utter your praise.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
In Context
2As I in the temple have seen you, beholding your power and your glory,
4So, while I live, I will bless you, and lift up my hands in your name.
Cross References
Psalms 4:6Many are longing for fortune to smile. Lift upon us the light of your face.
Psalms 30:5For his anger lasts only a moment, his favor endures for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but the morning brings shouts of joy.
Psalms 42:2I thirst for God, for my living God. When shall I enter in, and see the face of God?
Psalms 66:17For my mouth had no sooner invoked him than his praise was under my tongue.
Psalms 69:16Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.
Hosea 14:2Take words of repentance with you, and return to the Lord your God. Say to him: Wholly pardon our iniquity, accept that which is good, instead of sacrificing bulls, we offer our praise.
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 →