New King James Version
Psalms 63:2
2So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see 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.
- New International Version (NIV)I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.
Context of Psalms 63:2
1O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. 3Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. 4Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
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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 have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.
- Psalms 78:61And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy’s hand.
- Psalms 105:4Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face evermore!
- Psalms 145:11They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, And talk of Your power,
- Exodus 33:18And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
- 1 Samuel 4:21Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
- 1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face evermore!
- 2 Corinthians 4:4whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
- Psalms 68:24They have seen Your procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end.
- Psalms 77:13Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?
- Psalms 84:2My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 96:6Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
- Psalms 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord.
- Isaiah 60:13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious.
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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