For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
Psalm 63:3 - English Standard Version 2016 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because thy lovingkindness Is better than life, My lips shall praise thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. American Standard Version (1901) Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee. Common English Bible My lips praise you because your faithful love is better than life itself! Catholic Public Domain Version You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. |
For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.