This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David’s psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul’s epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David’s psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness.

Devout Affections. A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. 1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the…

How soon are David’s complaints and prayers turned into praises and thanksgivings! After Ps. 63:1–2 that express his desire in seeking God, here are some that express his joy and satisfaction in having found him.

David, having expressed his desires towards God and his praises of him, here expresses his confidence in him and his joyful expectations from him : In the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice, alluding either to the wings of the cherubim stretched out over the ark of the covenant, between which God…