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Psalm 63:6-8
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 63:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 My soul[a] will be satisfied as at a banquet
and with rejoicing lips my mouth will praise you.
7 I think of you while I lie upon my bed,[b]
and I meditate on you during the watches of the night.
8 For you are my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I rejoice.[c]
Footnotes
- Psalm 63:6 Soul: see note on Ps 6:4. As at a banquet: literally, “marrow and fat,” the preferred meats of the Palestinian Arabs and a symbol of the best of foods (see Ps 36:9).
- Psalm 63:7 Upon my bed: during the night of darkness, the psalmist anxiously looks for the morning of God’s deliverance (see notes on Pss 57; 57:9). Watches of the night: the night was divided into three watches, and if someone were aware of all three of them he was passing a sleepless night—in this case at prayer (see Ps 119:148; Lam 2:19).
- Psalm 63:8 See note on Ps 17:8.
