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I look to you in the sanctuary
    to see your power and glory.
For your love is better than life;[a]
    my lips shall ever praise you!

II

I will bless you as long as I live;
    I will lift up my hands, calling on your name.
My soul shall be sated as with choice food,
    with joyous lips my mouth shall praise you!

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Footnotes

  1. 63:4 For your love is better than life: only here in the Old Testament is anything prized above life—in this case God’s love.

Because your love is better than life,(A)
    my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,(B)
    and in your name I will lift up my hands.(C)
I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;(D)
    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

On my bed I remember you;
    I think of you through the watches of the night.(E)

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