“ Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. ”
Because thy loving-kindness is better than life - Thy favor; thy mercy. This is of more value than life; more to be desired than life. Life is the most valued and valuable thing pertaining to thi...
LXIII. Written by one who has seen God's glory in the Temple and resolved to praise Him all his life. He is confident his enemies will perish. Psalms 63:11 refers to a Hebrew king, possibly Ma...
lovingkindness . grace. praise . commend, or extol. Hebrew. ahabah . used only by David and Solomon.
3 Because thy mercy is better than life, etc. I have no objections to read the verse in this connected form, though I think that the first clause would be better separated, and taken in with...
DISCOURSE: 600 THE BELIEVER’S DISPOSITIONS TOWARDS GOD Psalms 63:1-7 . 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...
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thy loving-kindness is better than life - This is the language of every regenerate soul. But O how few prefer the approbat...
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Because thy loving-kindness (is) better than life. This gives the reason why he so eagerly thirsts after God, and af...
Title.— A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. The writer of this Ps. is a king ( Psalms 63:11 ), who is at a distance from the sanctuary, and in danger from eager foes. If the t...
Because. — Such a sense of the blessedness of Divine favour — here in its peculiar sense of covenant favour — that it is better than life itself, calls for gratitude displayed all through life. “Lo...
Psalms 63:1-11 IF the psalmist is allowed to speak, he gives many details of his circumstances in his song. He is in a waterless and weary land, excluded from the sanctuary, followed by enemies se...
the Longing Soul Abundantly Satisfied Psalms 63:1-11 Ever since the third century this has been the morning song of the Church. The superscription tells us that it was written in the wilderness...
Here the conviction which has been the inspiration of the two previous psalms reaches a consummation of expression. The song can hardly be divided, for it runs on in a continuous outpouring of praise...
Every verse in this beautiful Psalm is a pearl, because every part and portion of it points to Jesus. Whether we hear Christ during his wilderness-exercises thus express himself, or whether David, as...
Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life ,.... For life without the love of God is nothing else than death: a man that has no share in the love of God is dead while he lives; all the enjoyme...
Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Ver. 3. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life ] Mr Bradford, being threatened by Stephen Gardiner (then Lord C...
Because , &c. Here we see the reason of the psalmist's thirst after God, as is expressed in the two preceding verses; thy loving-kindness is better than life That is, the discoveries and influ...
Joyful Praises. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. 4 Thus will I bless th...
This is the reason of the foregoing thirst after God. Thy loving-kindness, i.e. the discoveries and influences of thy grace and favour, which thou usually impartest to thy people in the sanctuary....
Heading. ‘A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.' It is noticeable that there is here no dedication to the Chief Musician, and no mention of the tune to which it was to be sung...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah .” Hengstenberg: “The wilderness of Judah is the whole wilderness towards the east of the tribe of Judah, bo...
Psalms 63:1-11 This Psalm, with its passion of love and mystic rapture, is a monument for us of how the writer's sorrows had brought to him a closer union with God, as our sorrows may do for us, l...
This is said to be «A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.» I suppose, therefore, that it was composed when he fled from Jerusalem because of the cruel treachery of his son Absalom...
Psalms 63:4 . I will lift up my hands in thy name. This was swearing fidelity to the Lord. The heathens did the same to their idols; they kissed their hand, or they stretched it out. Job 31:27 ;...
O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee. The greatest things of the soul I. The greatest hunger of the soul ( Psalms 63:1 ). The soul wants God, as the thirsty land the refreshing shower...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of one absent from the sanctuary, and longing to return to it ( Psalms 63:1 , Psalms 63:2 ), pursued by enemies who seek his life ( Psalms 63:9 ), but confident in God's pr...
Morning Hymn of a Fugitive. A psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah, very likely at the time when he left Jerusalem at the approach of Absalom, for it was then that he spent a few...
1 Corinthians 6:20 ; 1 John 3:2 ; Hebrews 13:15 ; Hosea 14:2 ; James 3:5-10 ; Philippians 1:23 ; Psalms 21:6 ; Psalms 30:12 ; Psalms 30:5 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Psalms 51:15 ; Psalms 66:17 ; Rom...