Psalms 42:9

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
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God: Psalms 18:2, Psalms 28:1, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 78:35

Why hast: Psalms 13:1, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 77:9, Isaiah 40:27, Isaiah 49:15

why go: Psalms 38:6, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 88:9, Job 30:26-31

because: Psalms 55:3, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Lamentations 5:1-16

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:2 - General 2 Samuel 23:3 - the Rock 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague Job 30:28 - General Psalms 18:46 - blessed Psalms 74:1 - O God Daniel 10:2 - I Daniel Mark 15:34 - why

Cross-References

Genesis 42:5
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, "You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Genesis 42:20
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die." And to this they consented.

Genesis 42:30
"The man who is the lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

Genesis 42:31
But we told him, 'We are honest men, not spies.

Genesis 42:34
But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.'"

Exodus 32:35
And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

Numbers 13:2
"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers' tribes send one man who is a leader among them."

Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Acacia Grove, saying, "Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will say unto God my rock,.... A name frequently given to the eternal God, Father, Son, and Spirit, Deuteronomy 32:4;

Deuteronomy 32:4- :;

why hast thou forgotten me? Deuteronomy 32:4- :;

why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? meaning perhaps Saul; though it may be applied to any spiritual enemy, sin, Satan, and the world; who are very oppressive and afflicting, and occasion continual mourning to the children of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will say unto God my rock - I will appeal to God as my defense, my helper, my Saviour. On the word rock, as applied to God, see the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Why hast thou forgotten me? - See the notes at Psalms 22:1. He had seemed to forget and forsake him, for He did not come to interpose and save him. This is a part of the prayer which he says Psalms 42:8 that he would use.

Why go I mourning? - On the meaning of the word used here - קדר qodēr - see Psalms 35:14, note; Psalms 38:6, note. The idea is that of being bowed down, made sad, deeply afflicted, as one forsaken.

Because of the oppression of the enemy - In the oppression of the enemy; that is, during its continuance, or on account of it. The word here rendered “oppression” means distress, affliction, straits, Job 36:15; 1 Kings 22:27; Isaiah 30:20. The “enemy” here referred to may have been Absalom, who had driven him from his throne and kingdom.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 42:9. I will say unto God my rock — God, my Fortress and Support.

Why hast thou forgotten meat — This and the following verse is badly pointed in our Bibles: "Why go I mourning as with a sword in my bones because of the oppression of the enemy? Mine enemies reproach me daily, while they say unto me, Where is thy God?" See on Psalms 42:3. Their reproaches are to my soul as cutting and severe as a sword thrust into my body, and separating between my bones; because these reproaches are intended to fall on thee, my God, as if thou hadst not power to save us from the hands of our oppressors.