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Mazmur 63:2
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(63-3) Demikianlah aku memandang kepada-Mu di tempat kudus, sambil melihat kekuatan-Mu dan kemuliaan-Mu.
Ya Allah! Engkaulah Allahku! pada dini hari aku mencahari Engkau, bahwa jiwaku berdahaga akan Dikau dan tubuhkupun rindu akan Dikau pada suatu tanah yang kering lagi dengan matinya sebab tiada berair.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
To see: Psalms 27:4, Psalms 78:61, Psalms 105:4, Psalms 145:11, Exodus 33:18, Exodus 33:19, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 4:22, 1 Chronicles 16:11, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6
in the: Psalms 68:24, Psalms 73:17, Psalms 73:18, Psalms 77:13, Psalms 77:14, Psalms 84:2-11, Psalms 96:6, Psalms 134:2, Isaiah 60:13
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 18:6 - and come with 2 Samuel 15:25 - he will bring 1 Chronicles 16:27 - Glory 2 Chronicles 30:8 - enter into Psalms 4:7 - put Psalms 21:6 - made him exceeding glad Psalms 26:8 - where Psalms 27:8 - Thy Psalms 29:9 - discovereth Psalms 42:1 - so panteth Psalms 48:9 - in the Psalms 84:10 - For Song of Solomon 2:4 - brought Isaiah 41:17 - seek Zephaniah 3:18 - sorrowful Matthew 5:6 - are Luke 9:33 - it is John 11:40 - see John 14:8 - show Romans 9:4 - and the glory 2 Corinthians 4:6 - the light Colossians 1:11 - his
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To see thy power and thy glory,.... Either the ark, as the Jewish writers generally interpret it; the symbol of God's presence and glory, and which is called his strength and his glory; see
Psalms 78:61; or rather the Lord Christ, who is the power of God, as well as the wisdom of God; by whom he made the world, and upholds it; by whom he has redeemed his people, and keeps and preserves them; and whose power is seen in the efficacy of the word and ordinances: and who is also the glory of God; he is the brightness of his Father's glory; his glory is the glory as of the only begotten of the Father; he has the same glorious nature, perfections, names, homage, and worship; and the glory of all the divine attributes is displayed in the work of salvation and redemption he has wrought out; and this glory is to be seen, through the glass of the word and ordinances, in the house of God. Hence it follows;
so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary; where he comes and blesses his people, and manifests himself unto them, as he does not unto the world; where his goings are seen, and his footsteps traced, Psalms 68:24. The psalmist calls to mind former experiences in the sanctuary; and these stimulate him to an eager desire of fresh tastes of the grace of God, and clearer views of his power and glory. Or, as in a dry and thirsty land my soul longed and thirsted for time, so have I desired to see thee in the sanctuary; or so I see thee there as if in the sanctuary.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To see thy power and thy glory - The reference here is to what was manifested of the presence and the power of God in the services of public worship; the praises, the prayers, the rejoicings, the evidences of the divine presence.
So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary - At the tabernacle, amidst the solenm services of divine worship. There seems to be no reason for supposing that he here refers to the mere external pomp and splendor of public worship, but he doubtless includes the power of the divine presence which he had felt in such services on his own soul. As applied now to a place of Christian worship, it may be observed that there are nowhere more striking exhibitions of the Tower of God on earth than those which occur in such a place, especially in a revival of religion. The scene on the day of Pentecost was as striking an exhibition of the power of God as that which goes forth in the fury of the storm, in the raging of the ocean, or in the guidance of the heavenly bodies. Nothing can so well express what occurs in such a scene as the words “power” and “glory;” nothing shows more certainly the power of God than that influence which bows down haughty sinners, and makes them humble; which produces a deep stillness and awe in the assembled multitudes; which extorts the cry, “Men and brethren, what must we do to be saved?” which makes hardened men weep, and men long addicted to habits of sin willing to abandon their iniquities, and turn to God: and nothing shows more clearly the “glory” of God than that power, that grace, that mercy, which thus turns multitudes from the ways of sin and death, and directs their feet into the path of peace and salvation. They who have ever witnessed the power of God in a revival of religion, will ever afterward long to see again “the power and glory” of God, as they “have seen” it “in the sanctuary.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 63:2. To see thy power and thy glory - in the sanctuary. — In his public ordinances God had often showed his power in the judgments he executed, in the terror he impressed, and in awakening the sinful; and his glory in delivering the tempted, succouring the distressed, and diffusing peace and pardon through the hearts of his followers. God shows his power and glory in his ordinances; therefore public worship should never be neglected. We must see God, says the old Psalter, that he may see us. In his temple he dispenses his choicest blessings.