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Psalms 42:3
3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 42:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- English Standard Version (ESV)My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”
- New Living Translation (NLT)Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”
Context of Psalms 42:3
1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Read all of Psalms 42Psalms 42:3 word by word
הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֬י דִמְעָתִ֣י לֶ֭חֶם יוֹמָ֣ם וָלָ֑יְלָה בֶּאֱמֹ֥ר אֵלַ֥י כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם אַיֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 42:3
- Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
- Psalms 102:9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
- 2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.”
- Psalms 42:10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 3:2Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”
- Psalms 22:8“He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”
- Psalms 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
- Psalms 115:2Why do the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Commentaries on Psalms 42:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3My tears have been my meat day and night - My longing has been so intense after spiritual blessings, that I have forgotten to take my necessary food; and my sorrow has been so great, that I have had no appetite for any. I feel more for the honor of my God and his truth than for myself, when the idolaters, who have thy people in captivity, insultingly cry, Where is thy God?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3My tears have been my meat - The word rendered tears in this place is in the singular number, and means literally weeping. Compare Psalm 39:12. The word meat here means literally bread, and is used in the general signification of food, as the word meat is always used in the English version of the Bible. The English word meat, which originally signified food, has been changed gradually in its signification, until it now denotes in common usage animal food…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Crying so much that tears become food shows deep sadness (Psalms 80:5; 102:9; see 6:6; 56:8; 119:136; 126:5). The wicked try to impose their timing on God and deny his power to intervene.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Where is thy God?--implying that He had forsaken him (compare 2Sa 16:7; Psa 3:2; 22:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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