Psalms 42:11
11 Why are you depressed, ▼▼ Heb “Why do you bow down?”
O my soul? ▼▼ For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.
Why are you upset? ▼
▼ Heb “and why are you in turmoil upon me?”
Wait for God!
For I will again give thanks
to my God for his saving intervention. ▼
▼ Heb “for again I will give him thanks, the saving acts of my face and my God.” The last line should be emended to read יְשׁוּעֹת פְנֵי אֱלֹהָי (yeshu’ot feney ’elohay, “[for] the saving acts of the face of my God”), that is, the saving acts associated with God’s presence/intervention. This refrain is almost identical to the one in v. 5. See also Ps 43:5.
Psalm 43
▼▼ Psalm 43. Many medieval Hebrew mss combine Psalm 43 and Psalm 42 into one psalm. Psalm 43 is the only psalm in Book 2 of the Psalter (Psalms 42–72) that does not have a heading, suggesting that it was originally the third and concluding section of Psalm 42. Ps 43:5 is identical to the refrain in Ps 42:11 and almost identical to the refrain in Ps 42:5.
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