2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
2 So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength and glory.
2 So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
2 I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 63:2
Commentary on Psalm 63:1-2
(Read Psalm 63:1-2)
Early will I seek thee. The true Christian devotes to God the morning hour. He opens the eyes of his understanding with those of his body, and awakes each morning to righteousness. He arises with a thirst after those comforts which the world cannot give, and has immediate recourse by prayer to the Fountain of the water of life. The true believer is convinced, that nothing in this sinful world can satisfy the wants and desires of his immortal soul; he expects his happiness from God, as his portion. When faith and hope are most in exercise, the world appears a weary desert, and the believer longs for the joys of heaven, of which he has some foretastes in the ordinances of God upon earth.