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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 42 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. Of the word "Maschil", [See comments on Psalms 32:1], title. Korah was he who was at the head of a conspiracy against Moses and Aaron, for which sin the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed alive him and his company, and fire devoured two hundred and fifty more; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,.... Either through a natural thirst that creature is said to have; or through the heat of the summer season; and especially when hunted by dogs, it betakes itself to rivers of water, partly to make its escape, and partly to extinguish its thirst, and refresh itself. The word here used denotes the cry of...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
If the book of Psalms be, as some have styled it, a mirror or looking-glass of pious and devout affections, this psalm in particular deserves, as much as any one psalm, to be so entitled, and is as proper as any to kindle and excite such in us: gracious desires are here strong and fervent; gracious hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, are here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. It is the “hart” that panteth; and, in the Hebrew, the word is in the feminine. The old naturalists say that the female has greater thirst than the male, and that it shows it more, having more feebleness of body, and less power of endurance. The hart is said to be,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. It is said that when they cannot find water, they sometimes let loose a hart, which, flying over the desert sand, by instinct seems to scent out the water-brook. If he cannot find it, however, the stag is subject to a burning thirst. He stands and pants. His sides...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Hunted, hot, weary, thirsty! It must drink or die. You see the poor creature with the big tears in its eyes, with the sweat distilling from it, moving to and fro as it pants in its longing for the water, “ even so does our soul long after God.” I must have my God. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. “As the hart panteth” or “brayeth.” And if such be your soul’s panting after God, you shall have what you pant for. Sooner or later, God will manifest himself in grace to the man who cries after him in this fashion.
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after the, O God. As after a long drought the poor fainting hind longs for the streams, or rather as the hunted hart instinctively seeks after the river to lave its smoking flanks and to escape the dogs, even so my weary, persecuted soul pants after the Lord my God. Debarred...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,.... Who is so called, in opposition to the idols of the Gentiles, which were lifeless statues; and who is the author, giver, and maintainer of natural life; and who has promised and provided eternal life in his Son; and is himself the fountain of life, and the fountain of living waters, and a place of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul thirsteth for God, — It was a soul thirst, not a throat thirst; the thirst had got as far down as the soul, till the inner spirit was as dry as a man’s throat after a long journey through the desert. “My soul thirsteth for God,” Psa_42:2. For the living God: David had thirsted, you remember, for water from the well of Bethlehem that is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? Not God’s worship only; not God’s people, but God himself he pants for. Oh! for such a thirst. The next best thing to having God is to have an insatiable thirst after him. Do you think a soul ever could be cast away that longed for God? Impossible. There is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? Not sacraments, not sermons, but God. Not books, not even prayers, but God. Three times he puts it; “for God”--“for the living God”--“that I may come and appear before God.” We could not pant after an idol or an image; but we do thirst after a living God that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : — “My soul, my very soul, thirsteth for God, the living God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? That is another of the taunts of the ungodly. Just now, they said, “When shall he die and his name perish?” Now they cry, “Where is thy God?” “You said that he would help you; you were sure that he would comfort...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My tears have been my meat day and night,.... That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, 1 Samuel 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? The psalmist had sorrow within, and persecution without, and a Christian sometimes has to eat salt meat. “My tears have been my meat.” He finds but very little sweetness or solace in such food as this; yet, after all, there is much in a Christian’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? “Thou art forsaken. God has forgotten thee.” At the very thought of this, he had the salt meat of his tears, and nothing else, for there is nothing that touches a Christian’s heart and wounds him to the quick like that. “Where is thy God?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? That is a very stinging question, and the enemy knows that and he takes care to put it often to the Christian.” “Where is thy God.” “ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” That was the bitterest bitter in Christ’s cup. When our adversaries think...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I remember these [things],.... Either the reproaches of his enemies; or rather his past enjoyments of God in his house, he after makes mention of; I pour out my soul in me, that is, he had no life nor spirit in him, but was quite overwhelmed with distress and anguish; or he poured out his soul in prayer to God, that it might be with him as in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 holy day. You see, brethren, the more a man enjoys the means of grace at one time, the more he grieves when he loses them. “I had gone with the multitude.”...