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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 63 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. This psalm was composed by David, either when he was persecuted by Saul, and obliged to hide himself in desert places, as in the forest of Hareth, the wildernesses of Ziph, Maon, and Engedi, 1 Samuel 22:5; all which were in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55; or when his son Absalom rebelled against him, which...
John Gill
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 enjoyments of life, health, riches, honour, friends, c. are nothing without the love of God the meanest temporal blessings with it are preferable to the greatest without it, Proverbs 15:17; it lasts longer...
Matthew Henry
This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David's psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul's epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David's psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness. That which grieved him most in his banishment was the want of public ordinances; these he here longs to be...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life my lips shall praise thee. “In the wilderness, when my comforts are cut off, when my son, who was my darling, is seeking my life, my lips shall praise thee, for still thy lovingkindness is better than life.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: “Whether I live in a sterile wilderness or in a fertile land, I will bless thee while I live.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Is not that word “lovingkindness” one of the noblest terms in our own or any other language? The word kin is at the root of kind and kindred, so that lovingkindness, lovingkinnedness, or loving-kinness, is such conduct as we may expect from those who are akin to us. God’s kindness to us, through Jesus Christ his Son, and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. “ Better than life “; and surely life is better than anything else. “ Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.” Life is better than meat. Life is better than riches; and if the lovingkindness of God is better than life then we have a very high price set upon it, but none too high a price. Oh, that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: Satisfaction, absolute satisfaction; satiety of every desire, full to the brim to the running over only because God’s is our God; we want nothing...