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 after the ordinances of the sanctuary-namely, because in the land of the people of the covenant, God's "loving-kindness" is fully revealed; and that loving-kindness is better than lives (so the Hebrew) - i:e., better than life and all life's earthly blessings. What I desire is not so much my restoration to the good things of life, of which I have been deprived, as restoration to spiritual ordinances.
My lips shall praise thee - after that thou hast in thy loving-kindness restored me to external communion with thee and the Church in thy sanctuary. "Praise" - literally, 'to still' or 'soothe by praise.'