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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 history of which is recorded in Numbers 16:1; yet...
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 to be seen and pointed at, as the host of heaven,...
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 struggling, but the pleasing passion comes off a...
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 tears. It is a comfort to be able to shed tears of...
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?”
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 that we are altogether left, and to cry, “Where is...
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 you; you were confident that he would draw near to...