Eve of Ascension
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Psalms 42:3
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I am thirsty for God, for the living God! When can I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Instead of food, I have only tears day and night, as my enemies laugh at me and say, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
My teares haue ben my meate day and nyght: whyle they dayly say vnto me where is [nowe] thy God.
My teares haue bin my meate day & night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my bread day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?
My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Day and night my tears are my only food, as everyone keeps asking, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, "Where is your God?"
My teares haue bene my meate day and night; while they continually say vnto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, "Where is your God?"
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food by day and by night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?
Now when I thinke there vpo, I poure out my hert by my self: for I wolde fayne go hence with the multitude, & passe ouer with them vnto the house of God, in ye voyce of prayse & thankesgeuynge, amonge soch as kepe holy daye.
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, Where is your God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where [is] thy God?
(41-4) My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, "Where is your God?"
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"
Mi teeris weren looues to me bi dai and nyyt; while it is seid to me ech dai, Where is thi God?
My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where [is] thy God?'
My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Contextual Overview
For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah.
As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him? 3 Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, "Where is this God of yours?" 4 My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration! 5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior andBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
tears: Psalms 80:5, Psalms 102:9, 2 Samuel 16:12, *marg.
while: Psalms 42:10, Psalms 3:2, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 79:10, Psalms 79:12, Psalms 115:2
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 4:18 - when he made 1 Samuel 7:6 - drew water 2 Samuel 15:30 - and wept as he went up Psalms 6:6 - I water Psalms 22:2 - I cry Psalms 88:9 - Mine Ecclesiastes 4:1 - the tears Isaiah 36:4 - What Jeremiah 9:1 - weep Micah 7:10 - Where Luke 6:21 - ye that weep
Cross-References
So Jacob's sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.
"Sir," they said, "there are actually twelve of us. We, your servants, are all brothers, sons of a man living in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is back there with our father right now, and one of our brothers is no longer with us."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 food, and mixed with it f; see Psalms 80:5;
while they continually say unto me, his enemies the Philistines,
where [is] thy God? theirs were to be seen and pointed at, as the host of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, and idols of gold, silver, brass, wood, and stone; wherefore they ask, where was his? but David's God was invisible; he is in the heavens, and does what he pleases,
Psalms 115:2; or the sense is, that if there was such a God he believed in and professed, and he was his servant, surely he would never have suffered him to fall into so much distress and calamity, but would have appeared for his relief and deliverance; and therefore tauntingly, and by way of reproach, ask where he was.
f "--lachrymaeque alimenta fuere", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 10. Fab. 1. v. 75.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 in the general signification of food, as the word meat is always used in the English version of the Bible. The English word meat, which originally signified food, has been changed gradually in its signification, until it now denotes in common usage animal food, or flesh. The idea here is, that instead of eating, he had wept. The state described is that which occurs so often when excessive sorrow takes away the appetite, or destroys the relish for food, and occasions fasting. This was the foundation of the whole idea of fasting - that sorrow, and especially sorrow for sin, takes away the desire for food for the time, and leads to involuntary abstinence. Hence arose the correlative idea of abstaining from food with a view to promote that deep sense of sin, or to produce a condition of the body which would be favorable to a proper recollection of guilt.
Day and night - Constantly; without intermission. See the notes at Psalms 1:2. “While they continually say unto me.” While it is constantly said to me; that is, by mine enemies. See Psalms 42:10.
Where is thy God? - See Psalms 3:2; Psalms 22:8. The meaning here is, “He seems to be utterly forsaken or abandoned by God. He trusted in God. He professed to be his friend. He looked to him as his protector. But he is now forsaken, as if he had no God; and God is treating him as if he were none of his; as if he had no love for him, and no concern about his welfare.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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?
