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Texts -- Psalms 42:1-3 (NET)

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Book 2
(Psalms 42-72)

Psalm 42
42:1 For the music director ; a well-written song by the Korahites . As a deer longs for streams of water , so I long for you, O God ! 42:2 I thirst for God , for the living God . I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence ?” 42:3 I cannot eat , I weep day and night ; all day long they say to me, “Where is your God ?”

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  • Harap Akan Tuhan [KJ.445]
  • [Psa 42:1] As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams
  • [Psa 42:1] As Pants The Hart For Streams
  • [Psa 42:1] As Thirsts The Hart For Water Brooks
  • [Psa 42:1] As Pants The Hart For Streams
  • [Psa 42:2] Sweet Place

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Superman and Jan

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • The texts of the individual psalms do not usually indicate who wrote them.1However some of the titles of the individual psalms do contain information about the writers.2This is the only really reliable information we have as ...
  • I. Book 1: chs. 1-41II. Book 2: chs. 42-72III. Book 3: chs. 73-89IV. Book 4: chs. 90-106V. Book 5: chs. 107-150...
  • In this psalm David urged those who sin against the Lord to seek His pardon with the encouragement that He is gracious with the penitent. He will, however, chasten the unrepentant.Students of this penitential psalm have often...
  • In Book 1 we saw that all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. It is likely that he wrote these four as well even though they do not bear his name. In Book 2 the titles identify David as the write...
  • Some ancient Hebrew manuscripts united Psalms 42 and 43 as one. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. 42:5, 11; 43:5). Psalm 42 expresses the writer's yearning for God.94It consists of two ...
  • The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. He longed for God whom he confidently expected to be able to praise in the future when the Lord would deliver him.42:1-2 As water from a brook sustains a deer physically...
  • In this stanza the writer focused on his enemies rather than on God. However, he came back to the same expression of confidence with which he ended the first stanza.42:6 The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central san...
  • In this prayer the psalmist asked God to lead him back to Jerusalem so he could worship God there and find refreshment and relief. As I mentioned in my comments concerning Psalm 42, this psalm may at one time have been the la...
  • This psalm like Psalms 42 and 43 expresses the writer's desire for the Lord's sanctuary. It is one of the pilgrim or ascent psalms that the Israelites sang as they travelled to the sanctuary to worship God (cf. Pss. 120-134)....
  • Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89."In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus, pp. 55-77. Edited by Donald K. Campbell and Jeffrey L. Townsend. Chicago: Moody Press, 1992._____. Lord of Song. Portland: Multnomah P...
  • "This section moves much closer to the form of the descriptive lament found in the lamenting psalms than did the descriptions earlier in the chapter."141:15 The locust plague had destroyed (Heb. shadad) the fields and fruits ...
  • This pericope describes the character of the kingdom's subjects and their rewards in the kingdom.236"Looked at as a whole . . . the Beatitudes become a moral sketch of the type of person who is ready to possess, or rule over,...
  • Abbot, T. K. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles to the Ephesians and to the Colossians. International Critical Commentary series. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897.Aldrich, Roy L. "The Gift of God."Biblioth...
  • 4:4 The real issue is whom will I love, God or the world?"In the simplest sense of the word, the world is each man's natural environment, that into which he enters at birth, and from which he departs in death. It is the immed...
  • Adamson, James B. The Epistle of James. New International Commentary on the New Testament series. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1976; reprint ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984.Bailey, Mark...

Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.'--Psalm 42:2.THIS whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart. The writer of it is shut out from the Temple of his God, from the holy soil of his native land One can see hi...
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