5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
5 I eat my fill of prime rib and gravy; I smack my lips. It's time to shout praises!
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.
5 You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 63:5
Commentary on Psalm 63:3-6
(Read Psalm 63:3-6)
Even in affliction we need not want matter for praise. When this is the regular frame of a believer's mind, he values the loving-kindness of God more than life. God's loving-kindness is our spiritual life, and that is better than temporal life. We must praise God with joyful lips; we must address ourselves to the duties of religion with cheerfulness, and speak forth the praises of God from a principle of holy joy. Praising lips must be joyful lips. David was in continual danger; care and fear held his eyes waking, and gave him wearisome nights; but he comforted himself with thoughts of God. The mercies of God, when called to mind in the night watches, support the soul, making darkness cheerful. How happy will be that last morning, when the believer, awaking up after the Divine likeness, shall be satisfied with all the fulness of God, and praise him with joyful lips, where there is no night, and where sorrow and sighing flee away!