[3] The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

The image of the arid earth in verse 1 does not express the absence of God as in other psalms, but rather the aspiration to meet.

[9] "It is the jackal rather than the fox which preys on dead bodies, and which assembles in troops on the battle-fields, to feast on the slain.

[11][12] John Chrysostom wrote that "it was decreed and ordained by the primitive [church] fathers, that no day should pass without the public singing of this Psalm".

[14] Psalm 63 is still recited every Sunday at the Lauds by priests and religious communities, according to the liturgy of the Hours.

It is one of the great motets to celebrate the services at the royal chapel of the Château de Versailles, for the Sun King Louis XIV.