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Psalm 63:5

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
7For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
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The richest food becomes a picture of the soul’s satisfaction in God, and the mouth that might savor a feast opens in joyful praise.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 34:8Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.Both psalms use the experience of tasting food to describe the goodness and satisfaction found in God.
Psalm 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.Both passages describe satisfaction through abundant food imagery, connecting the soul’s fullness with what God provides.
Psalm 103:5who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.Both passages speak of satisfaction from God, pictured as rich food in Psalm 63 and good things in Psalm 103.
Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.Both look ahead to satisfaction, though Matthew names hunger for righteousness and Psalm 63 describes the soul’s fullness in God.
Psalm 103:1By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!Both connect the soul with praise: Psalm 63 describes joyful lips, while Psalm 103 summons the whole inner person.
Isaiah 25:6In this mountain, the LORD of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined …Rich food expresses abundance in both passages, as a comparison for the soul’s satisfaction and as a feast God prepares.
Proverbs 12:14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.Both mention satisfaction and the mouth, though Proverbs describes the good fruit of speech and Psalm 63 describes praise.
1 Peter 2:3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.Both use taste or food imagery to describe knowing God’s goodness, whether as graciousness tasted or satisfaction like rich food.
Job 36:16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.Both use rich food to picture well-being, though Job speaks of relief from distress and Psalm 63 of the soul’s satisfaction.
Ezra 3:11–13They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people …Both describe praise spoken aloud to God, with joyful lips in the psalm and singing and shouting in Ezra.
Isaiah 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let …Both connect the soul’s satisfaction with rich food, using bodily nourishment to describe delight found in God.
Revelation 19:5–7A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”Both name praise directed to God, voiced by the psalm’s speaker and commanded of God’s servants in Revelation.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Speak one sentence of praise before bed

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Encouragement

David speaks of satisfaction still ahead while remembering God’s help through the night. Your praise has a firm ground in the same truth: God’s loving kindness is better than life.

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