Psalms 63:2

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

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Cross References

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

1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Psalms 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Psalms 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

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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