Psalms 63:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־ט֣וֹב חַ֭סְדְּךָ מֵֽחַיִּ֗ים שְׂפָתַ֥י יְשַׁבְּחֽוּנְךָ׃

Transliteration

For ṭōb ḥasdəkā from ḥayyîm śəpātay yəšabbəḥūnkā

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ṭōb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *ḥasdəkā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your lovingkindness
• *mēḥayyîm*: preposition + noun, masculine plural - than life
• *śəpātay*: noun, feminine dual with 1st person singular suffix - my lips
• *yəšabbəḥūnkā*: verb, Piel imperfect, 3rd plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - they shall praise you

Word Meanings

• *ṭōb*: good/pleasant/agreeable
• *ḥasdəkā*: your lovingkindness/your steadfast love/your mercy
• *ḥayyîm*: life/lives/lifetime

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thus will I bless{H8762)} thee while I live: I will lift up{H8799)} my hands in thy name.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For thy louynge kyndnesse is better then life, my lyppes shal prayse the.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thus will I magnifie thee all my life, and lift vp mine hands in thy name.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  As long as I liue I wyll blesse thee on this maner: and in thy name I wyll lyft vp my handes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.

• World English Bible (2000)

  So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 104:33 : 33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.
• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands in holiness and bless the LORD.
• Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry out to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
• 1 Kgs 8:22-66 : 22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. 23 He said: 'LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below—keeping Your covenant and showing steadfast love to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.' 24 'You have kept Your word to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You fulfilled with Your hand, as it is today.' 25 'Now, LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, what You promised him: “You shall never fail to have a descendant to sit on the throne of Israel before Me, if only your descendants are careful to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.”' 26 'Now therefore, God of Israel, confirm the word that You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.' 27 'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even the heavens, the highest heavens, cannot contain You. How much less this house that I have built!' 28 'Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, LORD my God. Listen to the cry and the prayer that Your servant prays before You today.' 29 'May Your eyes be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You said, “My name shall be there,” to hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.' 30 'Hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.' 31 If someone sins against a neighbor and is asked to swear an oath, and they come and take the oath before Your altar in this house, 32 then hear from heaven and act. Judge Your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct down on their own heads and vindicating the innocent by rewarding them according to their righteousness. 33 When Your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against You, and if they turn back to You, confess Your name, pray, and plead with You in this house, 34 then hear from heaven, forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land You gave to their ancestors. 35 When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place, confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You have afflicted them, 36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land You gave Your people as an inheritance. 37 When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight, mildew, locusts, or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, or whatever disaster or disease may come, 38 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among all Your people Israel—being aware of the afflictions in their own hearts and spreading out their hands toward this house— 39 then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. Forgive and act, and give to each one according to all they do, since You know their hearts (for You alone know every human heart), 40 so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land You gave to our ancestors. 41 As for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but comes from a distant land because of Your name— 42 for they will hear of Your great name, Your mighty hand, and Your outstretched arm. When they come and pray toward this house, 43 then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks You for, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and may know that this house I have built is called by Your name. 44 When Your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the temple I have built for Your name, 45 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. 46 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to a land far away or near, 47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly'; 48 and if they turn back to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to You in the direction of the land You gave to their ancestors, the city You have chosen, and the temple I have built for Your name, 49 then hear their prayer and their plea from heaven, Your dwelling place, and uphold their cause. 50 Forgive Your people who have sinned against You; forgive all the offenses they have committed against You, and cause their captors to show them mercy, 51 for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace. 52 May Your eyes be open to Your servant’s plea and to the plea of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You. 53 For You set them apart from all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O LORD God. 54 When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread toward heaven. 55 He stood and blessed the entire assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying: 56 Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, just as He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He gave through His servant Moses. 57 May the LORD our God be with us as He was with our ancestors; may He never leave us nor forsake us. 58 May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commands, statutes, and judgments, which He gave to our ancestors. 59 May these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel according to each day’s need. 60 So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and there is no other. 61 May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today. 62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD. 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD. 64 On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat portions of the fellowship offerings. 65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt—celebrated the festival before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days, totaling fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king. They returned to their homes rejoicing and with glad hearts for all the goodness the LORD had shown to His servant David and His people Israel.
• Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw You and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its hands high.
• Ps 145:1-3 : 1 A psalm of praise by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD and highly praised; his greatness is beyond understanding.
• Ps 146:1-2 : 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.