Psalms 63:3

3. Thy loving kindness is better than life Thy mercy, by which life eternal is provided, is better than natural life with kingly honours super-added. Compare 1 John 3:1. The words, as Mrs. Conant beautifully says, are “an implication of immortality. In what sense could his ‘ loving kindness’ be ‘better than life,’ if it ceased with the cessation of ‘ life?’ A conscious possession, independent of the earthly ‘life’ and superior to it something for which the earthly life might properly be sacrificed, something therefore indestructible by the death of the body can alone come up to the measure of the thought here expressed.” See Dr. Conant’s version of the Psalms, in loc. These “implications of immortality” are everywhere scattered over the pages of the Old Testament.

My lips shall praise thee Because, notwithstanding all my sufferings, the paramount good remains.