Psalms 63:3
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
In Context
2To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
4Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
Cross References
Psalms 4:6There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance upon us.
Psalms 30:5For his anger endures but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 66:17I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms 69:16Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
Hosea 14:2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
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 →