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F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 42:1-11

Thirsting after God Psalms 42:1-11 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 Chronicles 20:19 . It was a great favorite with the early Church, driven to the Catacombs, on the walls of which are many designs of hunted deer. The water brooks, Psalms 42:1-3 . The hind suffers much from the sultry heat, but it dare not linger too long at the water-hole, because the wild beasts... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 42:1-11

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 supremely for the honor of God's name. His greatest grief is their mocking inquiry after his God. By contrast he remembers being in the midst of worshiping multitudes, their leader and companion. In the midst of his grief he appeals to his own soul in the language of hope and confidence. A great... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:8-10

‘Yet in the daytime YHWH used to command his covenant love, And in the night his song was with me, Even a prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? With crushing in my bones, My adversaries reproach me, While they continually say to me, Where is your God?’ But he thinks back to the days when in the daytime YHWH used to command His covenant love, while in the night time he would remember God’s... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:1-11

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-Deuteronomy : . The misery of exile from the Temple and the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 42:8

Will command i.e. will effectually procure or confer upon me, as this verb is used, Leviticus 25:21; Psalms 7:6, &c. The verb is future, but some render it by the time past, the Lord hath commanded; making this rehearsal of his former experiences of God’s goodness his argument to support himself, and to prevail with God in prayer; which may seem to suit best with the foregoing and following verses. But we must remember that David’s hopes and fears were strangely mixed, and his expressions... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 42:1-11

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription: “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 of singers (1 Chronicles 6:33; 2 Chronicles 20:19). Opinions differ as to whether this and ten or eleven other psalms bearing the name of “the sons of Korah” were composed by them or for them. The title may mean “for the sons of Korah,” “to the sons of Korah,” or “of the sons of Korah.” Winer, Origen,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:1-11

Psalms 42:0 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 if we can discover it in any case, the old proverb holds good that a knowledge of the disease is half its cure. II. The second ingredient of the prescription is remembrance: (1) the Psalmist's remembrance of his own experience and (2) his remembrance of God's gracious dealings with others. III. The... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:8

Psalms 42:8 I. The first thought we would draw from this verse is that there must be changes in every true life. (1) These changes give to life the most opposed conditions light and darkness. There is day and there is night. These represent the shiftings of colour that pass across our history, from the broad, bright sunshine of prosperity to the darkest and heaviest of our trials. If our life is to be of any value, these must come in some form, outwardly or inwardly. (2) These changes are... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:1-11

Psalms 42:1-11 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 that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled" ( Matthew 5:6 ). Here the psalmist is expressing his desire for God, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God." Jesus cried out, "If any man thirsts, let him come unto Me... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 42:1-11

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 built, to which Lot and his daughters fled. Psalms 42:7 . Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. Waterspouts at sea are very analogous to whirlwinds on land. They are never noticed but in dark and rainy weather. They are seen from the deck of a ship to arise in the midst of a... read more