Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 42:3
3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy 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?
- New International Version (NIV)My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your 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?”
Context of Psalms 42:3
1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 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? 4When 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 holyday. 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
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
Cross-references for Psalms 42:3
- Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- 2 Samuel 16:12It may be that Yhwh will look on mine affliction, and that Yhwh will requite me good for his cursing this day.
- Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
- Psalms 3:2Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
- Psalms 22:8He trusted on Yhwh that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Psalms 79:10Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
- Psalms 115:2Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now 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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