Verse Psalms 42:3. My tears have been my meat day and night] My longing has been so intense after spiritual blessings, that I have forgotten to take my necessary food; and my sorrow has been so great, that I have had no appetite for any. I feel more for the honour of my God and his truth than for myself, when the idolaters, who have thy people in captivity, insultingly cry, Where is thy God?
MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT - The word rendered tears in this place is in the singular number, and means literally weeping. Compare Psalms 39:12. The word meat here means literally bread, and is used i...
II. THE EXODUS SECTION: BOOK TWO:PSALM 42-72 The second division of the book of Psalms corresponds to the book of Exodus, the second book of the Pentateuch. That book begins with the groans and moans...
PSALMS 42, 43. Originally these two Pss. were one. This is proved by the long refrain common to each, Why art thou cast down, O my soul, etc. It recurs in Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5, an...
CONTINUALLY. all the day....
_my meat_ Lit. _my bread_. Cp. Psalms 80:5; Psalms 102:4; Psalms 102:9. Tears take the place of his daily food. So Ovid, _Metam_. x. 75, "Cura dolorque animi lacrimaeque alimenta fuere." _continually_...
Present sorrow contrasted with past happiness....
MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT DAY AND NIGHT— i.e. "I am wholly given over to grief and sorrow, whilst I hear the continual reproaches of mine enemies, saying unto me, What is become of thy God, in whom t...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE SECOND Psalms 42, 43 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Debarred Worshipper Mastering his Sorrow. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 42:1-5, A Debarred Worshipper, Nursing his Grief, nevertheless Striv...
_MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT DAY AND NIGHT, WHILE THEY CONTINUALLY SAY UNTO ME, WHERE IS THY GOD?_ My tears have been my meat day and night - I cannot eat with sadness. Instead of "meat," or food, tea...
BOOK 2 The second and third Books of the Psalter (Psalms 42-72, 73-89) are but the two parts of a whole, the largest section of which (Psalms 42-83) is called the Elohistic Psalter, because the name E...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
MY TEARS. — Comp. Psalms 80:5; Psalms 102:9; and Ovid Metam. x. 75, “_Cura dolorque animi lacrimæque alimenta fuere.”_ WHERE IS THY GOD? — For this bitter taunt comp. Psalms 79:10;...
_[Psalms 42:4]_ הָֽיְתָה ־לִּ֬י דִמְעָתִ֣י לֶ֭חֶם יֹומָ֣ם...
Psalms 42:1 , PSALMS 43:1 THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." It begins with a cluster of seven psalms (reckoning Psalms 42:1;...
THIRSTING AFTER GOD Psalms 42:1 This psalm clearly embalms the holy musings and yearnings of the exiled king during Absalom's rebellion. Their setting to music was left to the sons of Korah, 2 Chroni...
This is the song of an exile and, moreover, of an exile among enemies who have no sympathy with his religious convictions. He cries out after God with all the intensity of one who knows God and cares...
(c) My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God? (c) As others take pleasure in eating and drinking, so he was altogether given to weeping....
Light, your Messias, as the Jews confess, (Jarchi) truth, the holy Spirit. (St. Chrysostom) --- Both the titles may be applied to our Saviour. (Berthier) (St. Jerome) --- We are in the utmost distress...
What a striking difference is here made between the gracious soul longing after Jesus, and the heart that can take up and rest satisfied with anything but Jesus. Ordinances will not fill the soul, unl...
3._My tears have been my bread _Here the Psalmist mentions another sharp piercing shaft with which the wicked and malevolent grievously wounded his heart. There can be no doubt that Satan made use of...
BOOK 2 - PSALMS 42-72 In the second book, the remnant is viewed as outside Jerusalem, and the city as given up to wickedness. This is seen throughout it. The covenant connection of the Jews with Jehov...
MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT DAY AND NIGHT,.... That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, 1SA 1:7,8; or while he was eating tears fell in plenty, and they were as common, day and night, as his...
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God? Ver. 3. _My tears have been my meat day and night_] Hunters say the hart sheddeth tears, or something...
_My tears have been my meat_, &c. That is, I am wholly given over to grief and sorrow while I hear the continual reproaches of my enemies, saying unto me, _Where is thy God?_ Of whom thou hast so ofte...
My tears have been my meat, his substitute for food, his daily portion, DAY AND NIGHT, WHILE THEY, the sneering enemies, CONTINUALLY SAY UNTO ME, WHERE IS THY GOD? a question which, of course, implied...
AN EXILE'S LONGING FOR ZION. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Temple-services, Maschil, a didactic poem, for the sons of Korah, written by some member of this Levit...
1-5 The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in Go...
MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT; which notes both the great abundance and constant course of his tears, and the secret satisfaction and ease which he found in giving vent to his passion this way. Possibly...
Psalms 42:3 tears H1832 food H3899 day H3119 night H3915 continually H3117 say H559 (H8800) God H430 tear
‘My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, Where is your God?' Indeed so powerful are his feelings that he describes himself as weeping day and night so as to satis...
Psalms 42:1 I. The Christian must often share feelings such as these. The iron fetters of his oppressors namely, the sins which are ever besetting him are sore and heavy. These fearful foes which he b...
Psalms 42 This Psalm contains a prescription for a downcast soul, consisting of three ingredients. I. The first is inquiry: " _Why_art thou cast down?" Religious despondency must have a cause; and i...
Psalms 42:1. _As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God._ «As the hart panteth» or «brayeth.» And if such be your soul's panting after God, you shall have what...
We often read this Psalm, because we are very often in the same state that the psalmist was in when he wrote it, and the language seems to suit us at many periods of our life. Psalms 42:1. _As the ha...
Psalms 42:1. _As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God._ It is said that when they cannot find water, they sometimes let loose a hart, which, flying over the d...
Psalms 42:1. _As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God._ Hunted, hot, weary, thirsty! It must drink or die. You see the poor creature with the big tears in its...
CONTENTS: The experiences of a much afflicted saint and his confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: God often teaches His saints effectually to know the worth of His mercies by cau...
Psalms 42:3. _Tears have been my meat._ I abstained from food to indulge in grief: my sorrows have superseded the desire of food. Psalms 42:6. _The hill Mizar;_ the little hill on which Zoar was buil...
_My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?_ . WHERE IS THY GOD? Surely a searching, solemn query. Not a question, notice, of having, or not havi...
_As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God._ THE KORACHITE PSALMS The second book of the Psalter, characterized by the use of the Divine name “Elohim” instead...
PSALMS PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 42:1. While each of these psalms can be taken separately, Psalms 42:1 go well together as a song with three stanzas: they share a refrain ...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_: “To the Chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.” Maschil, an instruction, a didactic poem. “The sons of Korah,” descendants of Korah, were an important company...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm, committed (like so many others) to the precentor, or. chief musician, for its musical setting, is entitled "Maschil of the sous of Korah"—_i.e._ an "instruction," or didactic ps...
So we enter now into Psalms 42:1-11 into the second book of the psalms. And as a hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God (Psalms 42:1). Jesus said, "Blessed are they...
2 Samuel 16:12; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 115:2; Psalms 22:8; Psalms 3:2;...