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Psalms 42:1-6

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

1. To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God? 4. When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance. 6. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Psalms 42:1-6 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 42:1

Theological / Devotional

Hart. Heb. ’ayyal, “male deer,” probably to be written ’ayyalah, “a female deer,” to agree with the verb “panteth,” which in the Hebrew is feminine.

Verses 1–6 constitute the first stanza of the elegy.

Panteth. Heb. ‘arag, “to long for.” ‘Arag occurs only here and in Joel 1:20, where it is translated “cry,” but where it should probably have the same meaning as here.

My soul. Or, “I” (see on Ps. 16:10).

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