Psa 42:1-3, 69:3, 119:81-83, 143:7, Song 5:8 | TSK | STEP | David's zeal to serve God in the temple. He encourages his soul to trust in God. A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. (Title.){Maschil,} or a Psalm giving instruction, of the sons, etc. Or, "An instructive Psalm," or didactic ode, "for the sons of Korah." It is generally supposed to have been written by David when driven from Jerusalem and beyond Jordan, by Absalom's rebellion. the sons. panteth. Heb. brayeth. so panteth.

Psalms 42:1-3

1 David's zeal to serve God in the temple.

5 He encourages his soul to trust in God.

A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. (Title.){Maschil,} or a Psalm giving instruction, of the sons, etc. Or, "An instructive Psalm," or didactic ode, "for the sons of Korah." It is generally supposed to have been written by David when driven from Jerusalem and beyond Jordan, by Absalom's rebellion.

the sons.

44:1; 45:1; 46:1; 47:1; 48:1; 49:1; 84:1; 85:1; *titles

Nu 16:1,32; 26:11; 1Ch 6:33-37; 25:1-5

panteth. Heb. brayeth. so panteth.

63:1,2; 84:2; 143:6,7; Isa 26:8,9

thirsteth.

36:8,9; 63:1; Joh 7:37; Re 22:1

living.

Job 23:3; Jer 2:13; 10:10; Joh 5:26; 1Th 1:9

when.

27:4; 84:4,10

tears.

80:5; 102:9; 2Sa 16:12; *marg:

while.

10; 3:2; 22:8; 79:10,12; 115:2

Psalms 69:3

I am.

6:6; 13:1-3; 22:2; Heb 5:7

my throat.

21; 22:15; Joh 19:28

mine.

119:82,123; De 28:32; Job 11:20; 16:16; Isa 38:14; La 2:11

I wait.

25:21; 39:7

Psalms 119:81-83

CAPH

fainteth.

20,40; 42:1,2; 73:26; 84:2; So 5:8; Re 3:15,16

but I.

42,74,77,114

eyes.

123; 69:3; De 28:32; Pr 13:12; Isa 38:11

When wilt.

86:17; 90:13-15

like a bottle in the smoke.As the bottles in the East are made of skin, it is evident that one of these hung up in the smoke must soon be parched, shrivelled up, lose all its strength, and become unsightly and useless. Thus the Psalmist appeared to himself to have become useless and despicable, through the exhausted state of his body and mind, by long bodily afflictions and mental distress.

22:15; 102:3,4; Job 30:30

yet do I.

16,61,176