Psalms 42:11

_WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN O MY SOUL? AND WHY ART THOU DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? HOPE THOU IN GOD: FOR I SHALL_ _ WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL? AND WHY ART THOU DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? HOPE THOU IN GOD: FOR I SHALL YET PRAISE HIM, WHO IS THE HEALTH OF MY COUNTENANCE, AND MY GOD._ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? ... for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. See note, Psalms 42:5, "the help" or "the saving health of His countenance" is "the health of my countenance." The sufferer's countenance, once downcast with grief, is now brightened by the Lord lifting up the light of His countenance upon him. He therefore adds what was not in Psalms 42:5 - namely, "and my God." Thus, he closes with a triumph over the despondency into which he had been cast by his enemi

11_O my soul! why art thou cast down? _This repetition shows us that David had not so completely overcome his temptations in one encounter, or by one extraordinary effort, as to render it unnecessary for him to enter anew into the same conflict. By this example, therefore, we are admonished, that although Satan, by his assaults, often subjects us to a renewal of the same trouble, we ought not to lose our courage, or allow ourselves to be cast down. The latter part of this verse differs from the fifth verse in one word, while in every other respect they agree. In the fifth verse, it is the _helps of _His _countenance, _but here we have the relative pronoun of the first person, thus, _The helps of _My _countenance _Perhaps in this place, the letter _w_, _vau, _which in the Hebrew language denotes the third person, is wanting. Still, as all the other versions agree in the reading which I ha...

6-11 The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. David saw troubles coming from God's wrath, and that discouraged him. But if one trouble follow hard after another, if all seem to combine for our ruin, let us remember they are all appointed and overruled by the Lord. David regards the Divine favour as the fountain of all the good he looked for. In the Saviour's name let us hope and pray. One word from him will calm every storm, and turn midnight darkness into the light of noon, the bitterest complaints into joyful praises. Our believing expectation of mercy must quicken our prayers for it. At length, is faith came off conqueror, by encouraging him to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay himself upon his God. He adds, And my God; this thought enabled him to triumph over all his griefs and fears. Let us never think that the God of our life, and the Rock of...

Verse Psalms 42:11. _WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN_] There is no reason why thou shouldst despair. God will appear and release thee and thy brother captives and soon thy sighing and sorrowing shall flee away. Who is _THE HEALTH OF MY COUNTENANCE_] As a healthy state of the constitution shows itself in the appearance of the face; God will so rejoice thy heart, heal all thy spiritual maladies, that thy face shall testify the happiness that is within thee. There is a curious gloss on the first verse of this Psalm in my old _Psalter_, which I cannot withhold from the reader. The author translates and paraphrases the verse thus: - _Trans_. _Als the Hert yernes til the welles of waters; so my saule_ _yernes til the God._ _Par_. This Psalm es al of perfite men, that er brinnand in the flamme of G

WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL? - This closes the second strophe of the psalm, and, with one or two slight and immaterial variations, is the same as that which closes the first Psalms 42:5. In this latter, the word “why” is inserted, and the expression “the salvation of my countenance” occurs instead of “salvations of his countenance,” with the addition of the words “and my God” at the close. The sense, however, is the same; and the verse contains, as before, self-reproof for being thus cast down, and self-exhortation to put trust in God. In the former part of the psalm Psalms 42:5 he had addressed this language to himself, as designed to impress his own mind with the guilt of thus yielding to discouragement and sorrow; but he had then almost immediately admitted that his mind was

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 psalm, composed by the Korahite Levites—a Levitical family of singers (1 Chronicles 26:1, 1 Chronicles 26:2; 2 Chronicles 20:19). To the same family are assigned Psalm 45-49; in the present book, and Psalms 84:1; Psalms 85:1;...

WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL?.... The same expostulation as in Psalms 42:5; and so is what follows, AND WHY ART THOU DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? and the same argument and means are made use of to remove dejection and disquietude; HOPE THOU IN GOD; FOR I SHALL YET PRAISE HIM; Psalms 42:5; to which is added a new argument, taken from the grace and goodness of God, and covenant interest in him; [WHO IS] THE HEALTH OF MY COUNTENANCE, AND MY GOD; as the bodily health of man is seen in the countenance, and for the most part to be judged of by it; so is the spiritual health of the saints, and which they have from the Lord; when he, as the sun of righteousness, arises upon them with healing in his wings, he, by his gracious presence, makes their countenances chee

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 you pant for. Sooner or later, God will manifest himself in grace to the man who cries after him in this fashion. Psalms 42:2. _My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God :_ «My soul, my very soul, thirsteth for God, the living God.» Psalms 42:2. _When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?_ That is another of the taunts of the ungodly. Just now, they said, «When shal

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 of a suffering people in Egypt and after redemption by blood and by power, ends with the glory of the Lord filling the tabernacle when the work was finished. Ruin, oppression, suffering and sorrow, ending in deliverance and redemption, is the order in which the Psalms in this section are arranged. It is a most interesting study and we regret that we cannot enter into all the details, to explore these mines of prophecy. The oppressed, persecuted people, who suffer surrounded by the ungodly, is that same godly remnant of Israelites. Their deliverance comes by the visible manifestation of the Lord, the second coming of our Lord. The Psalm which concludes this Exodus of the Psalms is 72, the gre...

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, and thus divides the Ps. into fairly equal portions. The theme, moreover, is the same in both, and Psalms 43 is an orphan Ps. (p. 366), _i.e._ it has no title, because it did not originally rank as an independent poem. PSALMS 42:1. The misery of exile from the Temple and the memory of happy worship there. PSALMS 42:1. For hart read with many sc