시편 42:4-6 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 42:1-5

Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase: now here we have some of the expressions of that love. Here is, I. Holy love thirsting, love upon the wing, soaring upwards in holy desires towards the Lord and towards the remembrance of his name (Ps. 42:1, 2): ?My soul panteth, thirsteth, for God, for nothing more than God, but still for more... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 42:6-11

Complaints and comforts here, as before, take their turn, like day and night in the course of nature. I. He complains of the dejections of his spirit, but comforts himself with the thoughts of God, Ps. 42:6. 1. In his troubles. His soul was dejected, and he goes to God and tells him so: O my God! my soul is cast down within me. It is a great support to us, when upon any account we are distressed, that we have liberty of access to God, and liberty of speech before him, and may open to him the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:4

When I remember these things ,.... Either the reproaches of his enemies; or rather his past enjoyments of God in his house, he after makes mention of; I pour out my soul in me , that is, he had no life nor spirit in him, but was quite overwhelmed with distress and anguish; or he poured out his soul in prayer to God, that it might be with him as in times past; for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God ; the place of public worship, whither he had often... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:5

Why art thou cast down, O my soul ?.... The psalmist corrects himself, as being too much depressed in spirit with his present circumstances, and expostulates with himself; adding, and why art thou disquieted in me ? which suggests, that the dejections of God's people are unreasonable ones; sin itself is no just cause and reason of them; for though it is very disagreeable, loathsome, and abhorring, troublesome and burdensome, to a spiritual man, and is ingenuously confessed, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me ,.... 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; therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan ; the country round about it, or rather beyond it; which was at the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:4

When I remember these things - Or, these things I shall remember. They often occur to me, and sharpen my distressful feelings. My soul is dissolved, becomes weak as water, when I reflect on what I have had, and on what I have lost. Or, I pour out my soul to myself in deep regrets and complaints, when reflecting on these things. I once enjoyed all the ordinances of God, and now I have none. I once had the joyous communion of saints in God's ordinances; but that communion no longer exists, for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:5

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? - Bad as the times are, desolate as Jerusalem is, insulting as are our enemies, hopeless as in the sight of man our condition may be, yet there is no room for despair. All things are possible to God. We have a promise of restoration; he is as good as he is powerful; hope therefore in him. I shall yet praise him - For my restoration from this captivity. He is the health of my soul. I shall have the light and help of his countenance, his approbation, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:6

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. Therefore untill I remember thee from the land of Jordan - That is, from Judea, this being the chief river of that country. And of the Hermonites - הרמונים the Hermons, used in the plural because Hermon has a double ridge joining in an angle, and rising in many summits. The river Jordan, and the mountains of Hermon, were the most... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:4

Verse 4 4.When I remember these things This verse is somewhat obscure, on account of the variation of the tenses in the Hebrew. And yet I have no doubt that the true and natural sense is, that David, when he called to remembrance his former condition, experienced so much the greater sadness by comparing it with his present condition. The remembrance, I say, of the past had no small influence in aggravating his misery, from the thought that he, who had formerly acted the part of a leader and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:5

Verse 5 5O my soul! why art thou cast down? From this it appears that David contended strongly against his sorrow, lest he should yield to temptation: but what we ought chiefly to observe is, that he had experienced a strong and bitter contest before he obtained the victory over it; or we might rather say, that he was not delivered from it after one alarming assault, but was often called upon to enter into new scenes of conflict. It need not excite our wonder that he was so much disquieted and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 42:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 42:6-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 42:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 42:5

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