psalm 42:6 meaning

(Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons.). ", Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible. The formal arrangement already speaks in favour of this. Psalm 42:2 Translation & Meaning. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. Let me go a step further, and say that the disease mentioned in our text, although it is exceedingly painful, is not at all dangerous. His body is not *thirsty, but his *soul inside him is *thirsty. “A man’s spirit may sustain his infirmities, but a wounded spirit who can bear?”--and we may add, who can cure? Which the psalmist repeats, partly to show the greatness of his Psalm 42:6: The Remembrance of God the Result of Mental Depression: Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons: Psalm 42:6: De Prefundis Clamavi: J. Baldwin Brown, B. Let us pass now from the most obvious to the more subtle causes of soul-dejection. Not that David was exactly at Hermon, but he was in the transjordanic region wherein 'the Hermons' - i:e., Hermon and its fellow-mountains-were; namely, at Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok, upon the borders of Gad and Manasseh (2 Samuel 17:24; 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 2:8). 2 Samuel 17:24, 2 Samuel 17:27, 1 Kings 2:8, is clear, not only from the mention of the Jordan, but also from the plural: the Hermons. 2. How often the soul falls prostrate beneath its load of grief and trials. 1. In some codices this is joined on to the end of Psalms 42:5 = "the great deliverance of me, and [praise]my God". their gratitude to God, and their sense of his goodness; and and Vulg., a monte modico. I. Forgetting God is man’s natural instinct when his soul is cast down within him. "Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable". DD. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. David, a great man who had even reached the throne, is the man who says, “My soul is cast down.” Do you imagine that the head never aches that wears a crown? It would seem not improbable that after passing the Jordan the psalmist had gone in that direction in his exile. Remember — I will consider thy infinite mercy and power, and faithfulness. from the hill Mizar; or "the little hill"F11מצער מהר "de monte modico", V. L. Musculus; "parvo", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. "Commentary on Psalms 42:6". A reference of ourselves to God. of those places, and of the people that received the law on Mount ), The remembrance of God the result of mental depression. There is also a plain distinction between the doubting of unbelief and the doubting which is through infirmity; as there is also between the sins of infidels and of weak believers. Despair is reckless, and deep misery tends strongly to despair. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. Mizar bitters, and Mizar sweets, when blended, make a mixture palatable, and more than palatable, to the believer's taste. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. (R. In like manner, God’s children are much vexed with their doubts and fears, but they are never killed by them. (a) That the Lord was his portion, of which neither earth nor hell could rob him. 1 To the choirmaster. O my God, my soul is cast down within me - This is the utterance of a soul in anguish, notwithstanding the purpose not to be cast down, and the conviction that hope ought to be cherished. "[13], If we translate the passage as present (RSV) it means that the psalmist is at the present time receiving comfort and consolation from his confessed sense of God's overruling; and, if we translate it future as in ASV, then the psalmist is "stating his assurance that God will enable him to triumph in the midst of storms."[14]. I would remark, yet further, that a man may actually be growing in grace while he is cast down; aye, and he may really be standing higher when he is cast down than he did when he stood upright. This is the word of our Lord. I. The soul is well carried when neither so becalmed that it moves not when it should, nor yet tossed with tempests to move disorderly. “O my God.” In proportion as you feel your need of anything, and value it, you are anxious to make it your own. Psalm 137, which is also an exilic Psalm). Matt., and in this ver. See the notes at Psalm 29:6. 2. Oppressive. 42:6-11 The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. 3. he is being taunted by his captors, Ps. BibliographyGill, John. 42 As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my [ a]soul pants [longingly] for You, O God. It consists of several summits, and is therefore spoken of here in the plural number, Hermonim, the Hebrew plural of Hermon. So LXX. 1905-1909. His troubles come rushing over his soul; they all return at once; his heart is oppressed, and he is constrained to confess that, notwithstanding his solemn purpose not to be sad, and the conviction that he ought to be cheerful, and his wish to be and to appear so, yet his sorrows get the mastery over all this, and his heart is filled with grief. (Bishop Griswold.). Bitter as it may be to feel the want of respect, of reverence, of obedience, of love from the children that are dear to us, that bitterness is intensified when memory testifies that we ourselves caused the evil by our unwisdom, neglect, or excess of tenderness. It is not for consolation, but primarily for doleful longing, that the Psalmist here thinks of God, who once was his God, and appeared now to have forgotten him in his removal and banishment." Sinai, remembering God; and so Arama thinks "beyond Jordan" is as the Targum; see ( Psalms 133:3 2. Hill Mizar—Or the small mountain. Beneath their weight he sank down into darkness and despair. and which was very high; Cocceius thinks the Geshurites are (c) He remembered that God was the health of his countenance, and the spring of his everlasting joy. Often, when I call to see a troubled Christian, do you know what he is almost sure to say? the country round about it, or rather beyond it; which was at the Some serious Christians complain of a want of inclination to holy things, and a coldness in their devotions. Mudge reads, from the little mountain of the Hermons. J. Many expositors have not been able to lay hold of the thoughts of the verse. Self-fellowship. 42:6. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. To many sensitive natures this is the most painful form of persecution. Hence some think the poet is contrasting Hermon with Zion. “Oh, sir, I do not feel this--and I do fear that--and I cannot help thinking the other!” That great I is the root of all our sorrows, what I feel, or what I do not feel; that is enough to make any one miserable. (J. Baldwin Brown, B. Psalm 42:6. A Christian merchant, some years ago, who had retired from business, and employed his substance in the cause of God, lately said to me, “I have found my troubles increase in life precisely in proportion to the number of my servants, and the growth of my property.” Paul says, “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.” This is well. The psalmist cannot but say that, despite all this, he is sad. flee, and where he had often met with God; and of the Hermonites; (1) The reason. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. And this is the peril of souls when east down. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". (Evangelical Advocate.). 6. "Commentary on Psalms 42:6". Affections are the wind of the soul, passions the storm. When the young believer has first to suffer from it, he thinks that he cannot be a child of God; “for,” saith he, “if I were a child of God, should I be thus?” What fine dreams some of us have when we are just converted! 1874-1909. Blessed Lord! (C. H. IV. "Sermon Bible Commentary". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". That men who have no interest in God have no refuge in the hour of trouble; for vain is the help of man. "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. "E.W. God often disappoints us to teach us submission to his will. It is his consolation that he can still remember God, and His past grace to him, even though he is excluded from the temple of God. 1. The Jewish writers differently interpret these words; Jarchi, of David's remembrance of the wonderful works God did for the people of Israel of old, in drying up the river Jordan, and giving them the law on Mount Sinai, a little hill, in comparison of some others: Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, understand them as a reason of his dejection, when he remembered how the Israelites came from those several parts to the solemn feasts at Jerusalem, which he was now deprived of; and the Targum paraphrases them of the inhabitants of those places, and of the people that received the law on Mount Sinai, remembering God; and so Arama thinks "beyond Jordan" is mentioned because the law was given there; and by the hill Mizar he understands Sinai: and some Christian interpreters consider them as a reason why David's soul was cast down in him, he being in such places as here mentioned, at a distance from his own house, from Jerusalem, and the place of divine worship, and so render the words, "because that I remember thee", &c.F12על־כן "propterea quod", Tigurine version, Piscator, Muis; "quia", Noldius, p. 727, No. The sneer of enemies. That their case is not so dangerous as they apprehend it, I shall endeavour to show by the following considerations. God cares more for me, for my present and my future, than I care for myself. BibliographyCoke, Thomas. His resolution. Psalm 42:6, NASB: "O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/heg/psalms-42.html. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/psalms-42.html. Joshua 22:11. John Trapp Complete Commentary. DeWette renders it as a proper name. Shame upon you! Besides, when this downcasting comes, it sets us to work at self-examination. (Comp. dejection and despondency: and delightful it is to call to mind, "In the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.". 1840-57. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". 2. For man's soul is as a workshop of Satan to produce in a thousand ways despair." A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. As this nowhere else occurs, we cannot go along with the current supposition, that it is not a single mountain, but an entire mountain-range, just as we say now: the Alps, the Appennines; for it is not probable, that a geographical designation should find a place only here. I will say to God my rock If we read the preceding verse in the past tense, the meaning of this verse … 3. he understands Sinai: and some Christian interpreters consider In reality, however, the group known especially as Hermon has three summits, situated, like the angles of a triangle, a quarter of a mile from each other, and of almost equal elevation. BibliographyBarnes, Albert. Or that you are more likely to escape the winds and storms by building your house high on the side of the hill? 1765. (6) Cast down.—The poet, though faith condemns his dejection, still feels it, and cannot help expressing it. * b. And certainly it would be very appropriate in this sense, That as often as David, from the land of Jordan, in which he now lay hid as an exile, set himself to think of the sanctuary, his sorrow was so much the more increased. 2. Another cause is a habit which some have of judging themselves, not from the Word of God, but from the words of men. Unless God impart strength to us, how shall we be able to subdue the many evil thoughts which constantly arise in our minds? 3. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/psalms-42.html. Do you ask, “Why?” Because, when we are cast down, it checks our pride. Consider the reason, nature, and fruit of David's remembrance of God when "his soul was cast down within him." Jordan; O my God, my soul is cast down - It is impossible for me to lighten this load; I am full of discouragements, notwithstanding I labor to hope in thee. use of to remove his dejection and refresh his spirits; and that We have set our heart upon the attainment of some particular good. But Bishop Hare observes, that Hermon being nowhere read in the plural, should not be so read here. enjoyed the divine Presence; or was indulged with some remarkable The principal summit, or Mount Hermon properly so called, rises to the height of ten or twelve thousand feet, and is covered with perpetual snow; or rather, as Dr. Robinson says (Biblical Researches, iii. "Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, … Psalms 42:6. David saw troubles coming from God's wrath, and that discouraged him. 27:8 ) ; here also the Lord had appeared to him, and for him; Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. That I may revive my drooping spirits, I will consider thy infinite mercy, and power, and faithfulness, and thy gracious presence in the sanctuary, from whence thou dost hear and answer all those that call upon thee, in all the parts of the land. Commentary on Psalm 42:6-11 (Read Psalm 42:6-11) The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. P. IL p. 120 ,—and 1 Kings 18:18, where the Baalim stand for, Baal and his companions; the Hermons=Hermon and the other mountains of the Transjordanic region. The holy mourner again seems to feel reviving affliction. His actual presence; His continual agency; what He is in Himself and to His people. 2. Evidently he was near the Hermon range of mountains that stood north of the Sea of Chinnereth (Galilee). What is the remedy for this dejection? I will remember Thee, for I am not my own, but Thine. his covenant God; and partly to observe another method he made BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Psalms 42:6". BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. and. GWN Psalm 42:6 My soul is discouraged. Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » David Despondency » David Mizar » Hill Mountains » Mentioned in scripture » Mizar Let us put all our hope in the Help of His Presence. 6.O my God! 2. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Ver. So the Greek in Matthew 26:38 and John 12:27]. Hebrew word doesn’t mean ‘spirit’ but a … Refers to the two peaks. 2. he longs for Canaan, Ps. 1871-8. The reason. Compare Psalms 42:11 with Psalms 43:5. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". Psalm 42:1 In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm. These desponding apprehensions are a powerful remedy for self-righteousness and spiritual pride. If you turn your back on God dark shadows will cross your path, thick darkness will be before you; but with your face towards God you will see light in His light, the darkness is past and the true light shineth. BibliographyCalvin, John. Pluck off those robes of mourning, lay aside that sackcloth and those ashes, down from the willows snatch your harps, and let us together sing praises unto Him whose love and power and faithfulness and goodness shall ever be the same. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. But if one trouble follow hard after another, if all seem to combine for our ruin, let us remember they are all appointed and overruled by the Lord. We ought to learn from this, that although we are deprived of the helps which God has appointed for the edification of our faith and piety, it is, nevertheless, our duty to be diligent in stirring up our minds, that we may never suffer ourselves to be forgetful of God. Jonah evidently based his prayer (Jonah 2:7) on the prayer of David: "When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple." All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. That the Psalmist was situated, not precisely on Hermon, but only generally in the Transjordanic region—that we are hence perfectly justified in thinking here of David's sojourn at Mahanaim, on the further side of Jordan, to the north of Jabbok, upon the boundaries of the tribes Gad and Manasseh, comp. 3. There are times when the soul is cast down within us like David’s. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". Firmer than the granite mountains, more enduring than the everlasting hills, was this portion of his spirit. Therefore—That is, because of my distress. Thus, Stier remarks: "This otherwise just sense does not fit itself well into the internal organism of the song, rising as it does, at this time, from lamentation into consolation. All other rights reserved. 2. 3. Despair is reckless, and deep misery tends strongly to despair. These five books of The Psalms correspond to the five opening books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. We know not what we are born to in our second birth, and when trouble comes upon us it surprises us. Would the husbandman have a right to be disappointed when he discovered that the seed he sowed yesterday had not yet even appeared above the soil? As no such name is now known to be given to any part of that mountain-range, it is impossible to identify the spot. The NASB Study Bible (p. 781) has an interesting suggestion that the psalmist was a Korahite Levite taken captive by … They who seek God and endeavour to serve Him, in some instances, form too high expectations of assurance and of comfort. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. The reference is to 2 Samuel 17:22. the Hermonites = the Hermons. God knew better than we did, and in His love He refused to give us what would have been unsuitable to us. The great Antitype, Messiah, in Matthew 26:38 ("My soul is exceeding sorrowful" - literally, surrounded with sorrow; and John 12:27, "Now is my soul troubled"), used the very words wherewith the Septuagint translate Psalms 42:4-5 [ perilupos (Greek #4036) ei (Greek #1487) hee (Greek #3588) psuchee (Greek #5590) mou (Greek #3450) (Psalms 42:5); and Psalms 42:6, hee (Greek #3588) psuchee (Greek #5590) mou (Greek #3450) etarachthee (Greek #5015). This appears still more clearly from the word Hermonim or Hermons. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/psalms-42.html. It was the storm of trouble that awoke the full harmony of David’s harp. The reference in "Mizar" is to its meaning little. Hermonites—Mount Hermon bounded Palestine proper on the northeast, and the Hermonites inhabited the adjacent lower lands south and southeast of the mountain. From the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, "the great deliverance of me, and [praise]my God", Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, "When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. In a spiritual sense it is sometimes “better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.”, III. (Homilist.). He destroys every drop of water in our vessels, in order that we may be compelled either to perish of thirst, or to inquire after Him, the fountain of living water. Or, I will remember thee, as I may, here at Mahanaim beyond Jordan, under the mount Hermon, and that other little hill (where I have found thee in my meditations and prayers propitious unto me), though I cannot now worship thee in the beauty of holiness, being driven out by my ungracious son Absalom from the place where thine honour dwelleth. Peter felt this same panic, when he tried to walk on the water to Jesus. Psalm 42:1 In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12. Therefore — Therefore that I may revive my drooping spirits. II. But this reason was not specially connected with Hermon; it belonged generally to his retreat beyond Jordan. ), The hill Mizar.—Marg., the little hill. II. From the land of Jordan—i.e., the uplands of the north-east, where the river rises. "Commentary on Psalms 42:6". The best of men may be disquieted and depressed: “without are fightings, and within are fears.”. PS 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Even according to that exposition, the Psalmist ascends from lamentation to consolation; but that the lamentation here does not figure so broadly as in the first strophe, that the consolation so immediately meets it, must appear highly natural, when the exhortation to "wait on God" had just preceded. The river Jordan, and the mountains of Hermon, were the most striking features of the holy land. Dear friends in Christ, fellow saints washed clean in the blood of our risen Savior: Mr. Stephen Fritze taught sixth graders at St. Martins, a WELS grade school in Watertown, SD. The transaction related in that chapter between the Cisjordanic and Transjordanic tribes abundantly explain the painful emotions, with which the Psalmist mentions here "the land of Jordan and the Hermons." “David,” says Calvin, “represents himself here as divided into two parts. Original setting not known. 1. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/psalms-42.html. The Jordan Valley is quite wide north of this sea and the mountains of Hermon rise up to the east from it. From the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. several parts to the solemn feasts at Jerusalem, which he was now The psalmist was on the eastern side of the Jordan. from all the places and parts of the land to which I shall be driven; whether from the parts about or beyond Jordan on the east: or, the Hermonim, i.e. III. 2. Verse 6. The Cisjordanic land was the land of Canaan in the proper sense, comp. "Commentary on Psalms 42:6". Excruciating. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? Mine by natural right (Job 10:8; Psalms 119:73; Psalms 139:13; Zechariah 12:1; Hebrews 12:9). 4. The Jewish writers differently Which the psalmist repeats, partly to show the greatness of his dejection, though he had not lost his view of interest in God as his covenant God; and partly to observe another method he made use of to remove his dejection and refresh his spirits; and that was by calling to mind past experiences of divine goodness; Ver. Perhaps David also has purposely made use of the plural number on account of the fear by which he was forced frequently to change his place of abode, and wander hither and thither. Faith triumphing. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/psalms-42.html. For the trial of your faith. Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you- … Despair is reckless, and deep misery tends strongly to despair. From the land of Jordan—From beyond Jordan, or east of Jordan. 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