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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
Thus will I bless thee while I live,.... With his whole heart and soul, as he had sought after him, and as under a sense of his lovingkindness; and as he now praised him with his lips, so he determined to do as long as he had life and being; by proclaiming his blessedness, by ascribing blessing and honour to him, and by giving him the glory of all mercies temporal and spiritual; I will lift up my...
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
Thus will I bless thee while I live: “As long as I live, I will praise thee; every breath of mine shall be perfumed with thankfulness and adoration.” Psa_63:4. I will lift up my hands in thy name. “In astonishment at the power of thy great name, and in confidence will I lift them up when they have been hanging down in weakness. I will go forth in holy activity, with uplifted hands, in thy name.”
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
I will lift up my hands in thy name. “I will pluck up spirit; I will begin to pray; I will begin to work. I will look toward heaven: ‘I will lift up my hands in thy name.’”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. “For very joy, I will lift them up, and clap them before thee. Though, aforetime, they hung down, as though I were dispirited, and could never work again, yet now, ‘ I will lift up my hands in thy name.’”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. I will confess thee. I will rejoice in thee. I will work for thee. I will encourage myself in thee. I will lift up my hands in thy name. Are any of you cast down? Do your hands hang down? Then lift them up in God’s name. Nothing else can make you strong. The name of the Lord shall be your strength.
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...