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Psalm 63 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)

1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. 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 weary land, where no water is. 2 So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, to see thy power and thy glory. 3 For thy lovingkindness is better than life; my lips shall praise thee. 4 So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [and ]meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. 9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God: every one that sweareth by him shall glory; for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 143:6; Psalm 84:2; Psalm 42:1–2; Matthew 6:33; Psalm 91:2
  2. 2 Psalm 27:4; Psalm 105:4; Psalm 84:2–11; Psalm 96:6; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6
  3. 3 Philippians 1:23; Psalm 51:15; Psalm 69:16; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 30:5
  4. 4 Psalm 104:33; Psalm 134:2; Psalm 28:2; 1 Kings 8:22–66; Psalm 145:1–3
  5. 5 Psalm 36:7–9; Isaiah 25:6; Psalm 17:15; Psalm 43:4; Ezra 3:11–13
  6. 6 Psalm 42:8; Psalm 119:147–148; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 119:55; Psalm 139:17–18
  7. 7 2 Corinthians 1:10; Psalm 61:4; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 54:3–4; Psalm 17:8
  8. 8 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 73:23; Psalm 18:35; Song of Songs 2:6; Psalm 37:24
  9. 9 Psalm 55:15; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 40:14; 1 Samuel 25:29; Isaiah 14:19
  10. 10 Jeremiah 18:21; Ezekiel 39:4; Ezekiel 35:5; 1 Samuel 26:10; Ezekiel 39:17–20
  11. 11 Deuteronomy 6:13; Psalm 21:1; Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 65:16; Romans 3:19

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXII)

    The title of it is, "Unto the end, in behalf of Idithun, a Psalm to David himself." I recollect that already to you hath been explained what Idithun is....Let us see how far he hath leaped over, and whom he hath "leaped over," and in what place, though he hath leaped over certain men, he is situate, whence as from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 63:3 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXVIII–XXXI)

    39. But "because Thy loving-kindness is better than life," behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between Thee, The One, and us the many,--in many distractions amid many things,--that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 63:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXVIII–XXXI)

    But "because Thy loving-kindness is better than life," behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between Thee, The One, and us the many,--in many distractions amid many things,--that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from my …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 63:1 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XVI–XIX)

    Therefore unto Thee is my soul as "land where no water is," because as it cannot of itself enlighten itself, so it cannot of itself satisfy itself.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)