Psalms 42:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁶O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon-even from Mount Mizar. ⁷Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me. ⁸The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day; and at night His song is with me-a prayer to the God of my life. ⁹I will say to God, my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" ¹⁰Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"¹¹Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As with: Psalms 42:3, Proverbs 12:18, Luke 2:35

sword: or, killing

while: Psalms 42:3, Joel 2:17, Micah 7:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:9 - mocking 1 Samuel 4:18 - when he made 2 Kings 2:14 - Where is 2 Chronicles 32:11 - The Lord our God Job 19:2 - vex Psalms 3:2 - no Psalms 13:2 - exalted Psalms 14:6 - Ye Psalms 22:8 - let him Psalms 55:22 - Cast Psalms 69:20 - Reproach Psalms 71:11 - God Psalms 79:10 - Wherefore Psalms 115:2 - General Psalms 119:22 - Remove Psalms 119:42 - So shall Proverbs 18:14 - but Proverbs 24:17 - General Isaiah 36:4 - What Isaiah 36:7 - We trust Matthew 27:43 - trusted

Cross-References

Genesis 27:29
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."

Genesis 27:37
But Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"

Genesis 37:8
"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

Genesis 44:9
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord."

1 Samuel 26:17
Then Saul recognized David's voice and asked, "Is that your voice, David my son?" "It is my voice, my lord and king," David said.

1 Kings 18:7
Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me,.... The reproaches of his enemies were grievous and cutting to him, as if a sword pierced through the marrow in his bones, which, being very sensitive, gives exquisite pain. There is a various reading here: some copies, as Vatablus observes, read ב, "in", or with, and others כ, "as", which seems to be the truest; and our translators supply "as", to make the sense, though they read "with"; but some n only read "as"; and the sense is, the reproaches cast upon the psalmist were as a sword cutting and killing; and these reproaches were as follow;

while they say daily unto me, where [is] thy God?

:-.

n כרצח ως σφαγην, Symmachus in Drusius; "ut occisio", Pagninus, Amama; so Aben Ezra interprets it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As with a sword in my bones - Margin, killing. The treatment which I receive in their reproaches is like death. The word rendered “sword” - רצח retsach - means properly killing, slaying, breaking in pieces, crushing. It occurs only here and in Ezekiel 21:22, where it is rendered slaughter. The Septuagint renders it, “In the bruising of my bones they reproach me.” The Vulgate, “While they break my bones they reproach me.” Luther, “It is as death in my bones, that my enemies reproach me.” The idea in the Hebrew is, that their reproaches were like breaking or crushing his very bones. The idea of the “sword” is not in the original.

Mine enemies reproach me - That is, as one forsaken of God, and as suffering justly under his displeasure. Their argument was, that if he was truly the friend of God, he would not leave him thus; that the fact of his being thus abandoned proved that he was not a friend of God.

While they say daily unto me - They say this constantly. I am compelled to hear it every day.

Where is thy God? - See the notes at Psalms 42:3.