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Psalms 63:2
2I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
Psalms 63:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.
Context of Psalms 63:2
1You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. 4I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
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כֵּ֭ן בַּקֹּ֣דֶשׁ חֲזִיתִ֑יךָ לִרְא֥וֹת עֻ֝זְּךָ֗ וּכְבוֹדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 63:2
- Psalms 27:4One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
- Psalms 78:61He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
- Psalms 105:4Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
- Psalms 145:11They tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might,
- Exodus 33:18Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”
- 1 Samuel 4:21She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
- 1 Chronicles 16:11Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- Psalms 68:24Your procession, God, has come into view, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 73:17till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
- Psalms 77:13Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?
- Psalms 84:2My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 96:6Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
- Psalms 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.
- Isaiah 60:13“The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place for my feet.
Commentaries on Psalms 63:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2To see thy power and thy glory - in the sanctuary - In his public ordinances God had often showed his power in the judgments he executed, in the terror he impressed, and in awakening the sinful; and his glory in delivering the tempted, succouring the distressed, and diffusing peace and pardon through the hearts of his followers. God shows his power and glory in his ordinances; therefore public worship should never be neglected. We must see God, says the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2To see thy power and thy glory - The reference here is to what was manifested of the presence and the power of God in the services of public worship; the praises, the prayers, the rejoicings, the evidences of the divine presence. So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary - At the tabernacle, amidst the solenm services of divine worship. There seems to be no reason for supposing that he here refers to the mere external pomp and splendor of public worship…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The psalmist remembers that he had found God to be present in his sanctuary (see Psalm 18:6; 61:4; 62:5, 11–12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. The special object of desire was God's perfections as displayed in his worship (Psa 27:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 63
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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