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Psalms 63:4

By my life, I will praise you. In your name, I lift my hands in prayer.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Seekers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hands;   Lifting up Hands;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Help;   Praise;   Satisfaction;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Praise;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lift;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joy;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Bible, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Life;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 6;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
English Revised Version
So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Update Bible Version
So I will bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
New Century Version
I will praise you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in prayer to your name.
New English Translation
For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
World English Bible
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
Amplified Bible
So will I bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
English Standard Version
So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So Y schal blesse thee in my lijf; and in thi name Y schal reise myn hondis.
Berean Standard Bible
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
Contemporary English Version
As long as I live, I will pray to you.
American Standard Version
So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Bible in Basic English
So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
Complete Jewish Bible
for your grace is better than life. My lips will worship you.
Darby Translation
So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Thy lovingkindness is better than life; my lips shall praise Thee.
King James Version (1611)
Thus will I blesse thee, while I liue: I will lift vp my handes in thy Name.
New Life Bible
So I will give honor to You as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in Your name.
New Revised Standard
So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus will I magnifie thee all my life, and lift vp mine hands in thy name.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Good News Translation
I will give you thanks as long as I live; I will raise my hands to you in prayer.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, will I bless thee while I live, In thy Name, will I lift up mine outspread hands:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(62-5) Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
Revised Standard Version
So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thy louing kindnes is better then life [itselfe]: my lippes shall prayse thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus will I bless thee during my life: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Christian Standard Bible®
So I will bless you as long as I live;at your name, I will lift up my hands.
Hebrew Names Version
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
King James Version
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Lexham English Bible
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
Literal Translation
So I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Young's Literal Translation
So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thy louynge kyndnesse is better then life, my lyppes shal prayse the.
New American Standard Bible
So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
New King James Version
Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus I will bless You as long as I live;I will lift up my hands in Your name.

Contextual Overview

3 Your faithful love is better than life, so my lips praise you. 4 By my life, I will praise you. In your name, I lift my hands in prayer. 5 When I sit down to satisfy my hunger, my joyful lips hunger to praise you! 6 I remember you while lying on my bed. I think about you in the middle of the night.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thus: Psalms 104:33, Psalms 145:1-3, Psalms 146:1, Psalms 146:2

I will lift: Psalms 134:2, 1 Kings 8:22-66, Habakkuk 3:10

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:12 - spread forth Nehemiah 8:6 - with lifting Psalms 28:2 - when Psalms 100:2 - Serve Psalms 141:2 - the lifting Lamentations 2:19 - lift up Lamentations 3:41 - with Luke 18:30 - manifold more Colossians 3:16 - singing James 3:9 - bless

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 hands in thy name; not against his enemies, against those that fought against him, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it, but unto God in heaven; and that not as a gesture used in swearing, but either in blessing, as Aben Ezra observes; so the high priest lifted up his hands when he blessed the people; or in prayer, or in both, so Jarchi's note is, to pray and to praise; :-. The Targum is,

"in the name of thy Word I will spread out my hands in prayer for the world to come;''

that is, in the name of the Messiah, the essential Word, in whose name prayer is to be made, and whereby it becomes prevalent and successful; see John 14:13. This is a prayer gesture;

John 14:13- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus will I bless thee while I live - In my life; or, as long as life lasts, will I praise thee. The word “thus” refers to the sentiment in the previous verse, meaning that as the result of his deep sense of the value of the loving kindness of God, he would praise him through all the remainder of his life, or would never cease to praise him. A true purpose of serving God embraces the whole of this life, and the whole of eternity. He who loves God, and who has any proper sense of his mercy, does not anticipate a time when he will cease to praise and bless him, or when he will have any desire or wish not to be engaged in his service.

I will lift up my hands in thy name - In solemn prayer and praise. See the notes at Psalms 28:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 63:4. I will lift up my hands in thy name. — I will take God for my portion. I will dedicate myself to him, and will take him to witness that I am upright in what I profess and do. Pious Jews, in every place of their dispersion, in all their prayers, praises, contracts, &c., stretched out their hands towards Jerusalem, where the true God had his temple, and where he manifested his presence.


 
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