inasmuch as he points with his finger to some stone, and says, Lo, there is my God! Furthermore, it is said in a certain passage, Your judgments are a mighty abyss, Scripture meaning to suggest that the judgments of God are incomprehensible. Psalms 42:3). So, he asks Why? Its a legitimate question. What will you confess? For whosoever of the body of Christ considers this, does he not exclaim, with the voice of Christ's Body, Why have You rejected me? It is ourselves, if we be but willing! And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. My health (my salvation) cannot be from myself; this it is that I will say, that I will confess. In the midst of the tumult of emotions, were not always careful with our words. With God is the fountain of Life; a fountain that shall never be dried up: in His Light is a Light that shall never be darkened. Scripture: Psalms 42:1-2 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Summary: THIRSTING FOR GOD THIRSTING FOR GOD (NLT) Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. Psalm 27. putting God first. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. The bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. The facts on which faith feeds abide while faith fluctuates. The deer that doesnt mind a sip or two of water if it happens to come their way or it isnt too inconvenient to look for it. While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? In reference to the description of the psalmists locality, Cheyne beautifully says, "The preposition from is chosen (rather than in) with a subtle purpose. His dwelling-place is above my soul; from thence He beholds me; from thence He created me; from thence He directs me and provides for me; from thence he appeals to me, and calls me, and directs me; leads me in the way, and to the end of my way.. .. 8. Romans8:23 When that health (that salvation) is perfected in us, then shall we be living in the house of God for ever, and praising for ever Him to whom it was said, Blessed are they that dwell in Your house, they will be praising You world without end. Feeling has to vindicate its rationality or to suppress itself, and its grounds have often only to be stated to the better self, to be found altogether disproportioned to the storm they have raised. He ends with naming Him "the gladness of my joy." Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts. I, so long as I do not see, so long as my happiness is postponed, make my tears my bread day and night. . I have within a victim to sacrifice; I have within an incense to place on the altar; I have within a sacrifice wherewith to propitiate my God. Verse 4: These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.. [Note: For the meaning of Maskil, see my note on Psalms 32.] The situation is described as in the preceding parts. The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. A. For I will confess unto Him. It is a very elementary but necessary lesson for the conduct of life that emotion of all sorts, sad or glad, religious or other, needs rigid scrutiny and firm control, sometimes stimulating and sometimes chilling. For I am suffering here, even as if You had forgotten me. John 4:14). 2. [Note: Merrill, "Psalms," p. Mistaking the desire for religion and religious practices for a desire for God. In the daytime the Lord would pour out His love to the psalmist, and in the night he would respond by praising God. St. Paul had a blinding revelation on the road to Damascus, an encounter with the risen Lord Jesus that turned his life completely topsy-turvy and started him on a perilous road that would take him all over .read more Scripture: Philippians 1:18-26, Psalm 42:2-5, Luke 14:1-11 Denomination: Catholic He therefore glances back to himself, as if he were coming from that world; and says to himself, now placed in the midst of these sorrows, comparing these with the things, to see which he had entered in there, and after seeing which he had come forth from thence; Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why do you disquiet me? The writer remembered with great delight the times when he found spiritual refreshment at the sanctuary in Jerusalem, but he was not able to return there yet. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. For were it to rest in itself, it would not see anything else beyond itself; and in seeing itself, would not, for all that, see God. u.s.). The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. Nevertheless he believed God would remain loyal to him. Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? Hope and trust hold the field. running for God. HAVE MERCY ON ME, GOD. Hear what else there is in the hart. Tries to ignore thirst. They are sons of the bridegroom, sons of Christ. Everything We Need - Psalm 23. When would my soul attain to that object of its search, which is above my soul, if my soul were not to pour itself out above itself? We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Why have You rejected me? Psalms 42:10 repeats the enemies taunt, which is there represented as like crushing blows which broke the bones. (Doesnt mean they are bad. But they are happy in their very yearnings who are conscious of the true direction of these, and can say that it is God for whom they are athirst. (vv. He called his book The Souls Conflict with Itself, because in Psalm 42:5 thats exactly what you have; the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself. Of course, there are other psalms that focus on thanksgiving, but this is the only psalm that is labeled as a psalm for giving thanks. Richard Sibbes, one of the great old Puritan preachers of Cambridge who died in 1635, wrote a whole book on Psalm 42:5. It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. 428.] He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). When shall I come and appear before God? What makes this so beautiful, and so crucial for us, is that hes not thirsting mainly for relief from his threatening circumstances. Verse 1 begins: "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." This phrase one of the most famous in the whole Bible. His situation and mood closely resemble those in another Korachite psalm (Psalms 84:1-12), in which, as here, the soul "faints for the courts of the Lord," and as here the panting hind, so there the glancing swallows flitting about the eaves are woven into the song. But it is a song of faith. Translated by J.E. Servanthood What does it mean to be a servant of Christ. 9 ). settled. It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. 1-10 and (2) vv. That's what he's seeking - jubilant hope. ), saying, I thought to know this; it is too painful for me, until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand of the last things. He calls past experiences to mind. Start With Prayer. The true counterpoise to its excess lies in directing it to God and in making Him the object of hope and patient waiting. Here, when men keep festival simply for their own indulgence, it is their custom to place musical instruments, or to station a chorus of singers, before their houses, or any kind of music that serves and allures to wantonness. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. 13. There is no necessity to conclude that these were heathens, though the taunt is usually put into heathen lips {Psalms 79:10; Psalms 52:2} but it would be quite as natural from co-religionists, flouting his fervour and personal grasp of God and taking his sorrows as tokens of Gods abandonment of him. Justly, because the understanding spoken of is an abyss. Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 18:3.) But yet, Why have You forgotten me? 15. On which account too this Psalm is ordinarily chanted on those occasions, that they may long for the Fountain of remission of sins, even as the hart for the water-brooks. For it is the strong members that are the bones; and sometimes even those that are strong sink under their temptations. The actual return to the Temple is desired because thereby new praise will be occasioned. The shifting of the initial word of Psalms 42:6 to the end of Psalms 42:5, and the substitution of My for His, bring the three refrains into line, and avoid the harsh expression "help of His countenance." 2. The absence of a title for the second, the identity of tone throughout, the recurrence of several phrases, and especially of the refrain, put this beyond doubt. God Our Refuge And Strength (Audio) Download File. He states the very words of that confession; he repeats the grounds on which he fortifies his hope. The prayer of Psalms 43:1-2, blends the two elements, which were at war in the second part; and for the moment the darker is the more prominent. Psalms 43:2 looks back to Psalms 42:9, the former clause in each verse being practically equivalent, and the second in 43 (Psalms 43:2), being a quotation of the second in Psalms 42:9, with a variation in the form of the verb to suggest more vividly the picture of weary, slow, dragging gait, fit for a man clad in mourning garb. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. 4. Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. A second purpose is that you want to leave something lasting in the minds of the congregation when a sermon is over. For it is written in a certain passage, The mercy of the Lord is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Because then God gives us all good things, because He Himself is good, not because we are worthy of it; because He is merciful, not because we have in anything deserved it; it is from the land of Jordan, and from Hermon, that I remember you. For men saw their torments outwardly; they did not inwardly behold their crowns! The sons of Korah (cf. Clearly the superscriptions rested upon some tradition or knowledge, else defective information would not have been acknowledged as it is in this one; but some name would have been coined to fill the gap. This is not inconsistent with righteousnessit is righteousness. With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. This same voice in another passage said, I said in my trance (i.e., in my rapture, when he had seen some great thing or other), I said in my trance, I am cast out of the sight of Your eyes. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. When we think and feel with God in the Psalms, this is the main result: we come to love God, and we want to see God and be with God and be satisfied in admiring and exulting in God. revive us again. The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. Am I already 'drinking' from this 'fountain' with nothing to fear?Still Hope in God, is his answer to the soul that disquiets him, and would fain account for her disquiet from the evils with which this world abounds. It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. For to account for his fears, in the midst of those things, which he now knows, having come after a sort to the understanding of them, he has been looking behind him again in anxiety, lest the enemy be stealing upon him: he cannot yet say, I am made whole every whit. Here, the Psalmist is making an eschatological statement that even in the midst of powerful opposition, God will rule and prevail over that which is unjust in both the short-term as well as the long-term (v. 3-4). 11-22. God means for these encounters with Him in corporate worship to preserve your faith now and in the way you remember them later. [Note: See Swindoll, pp. The writer viewed his troubles like waves cascading down on him, as if he were standing under a waterfall. And it is principally in the temptations of the Church they say this, Where is your God? Without it we die. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. In the waves that deep calls; in the overhangings is the other deep which it calls to. To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: sermonseeds-subscribe@associate.com. Matthew24:12 When we see the strong members of the Church generally giving way to the causes of offense, does not Christ's body say, The enemy breaks my bones? The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. The higher self arrests this flow of self-pity and lamentation. There is great similarity between the content of these psalms and the ones David wrote. For in prosperity God commends to you His mercy, in case thou serve Him faithfully, for He frees you from tribulation; but it is in the night only that He declares His mercy to you, which He commended to you by day. More deceptive is when weve tried to get our deepest desires met by things that are of themselves good: for example, relationships, careers, serving others. In his sorrow he could still think of Him at intervals as the help of his countenance and call Him "my God." Scripture (Psalm 32:1-5) verses 1-2: The one who has his sins covered is "blessed." The Hebrews used two different words to describe being "blessed." One word meant God bestowed the blessing. Esther 3:7-15 - The First PLO. And this, which is soon in the sight of God, is late to our longing. Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. 1. To see those who were thought to have some stability, giving way under temptations, so that the rest of the weak brethren despair when they see those who are strong succumbing; how great, my brethren, are the dangers! My God is the saving health of my countenance. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. 6, HWV 251b, "As pants the Hart for cooling streams": As pants the hart for cooling streams, so longs my soul for thee O God (George Frideric Handel; lyrics based off of Tate and Brady) Psalm 42:1-2: When shall I come and appear before God? PROPOSITION: To study the story of the rich man and Lazarus and notice: 1) The characters, 2) The circumstances, 3) The cries of the rich man, 4) The conclusions of the story. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. Psalm 42 and 43 almost certainly originally a single Psalm. Psalm 41:5. And why ask, who it is other than yourself, when it is in your power to be the thing which you are asking about? Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. ), the temple singers were still called the sons of Asaph. In view of the long and continued service of these temple servants, we cannot be absolutely sure when these psalms were composed, but whether they were written in the time of David or as late as Ezra, they are still Davidic associates, and that seems to reinforce the Davidic nature of these collections." the heights of Hermon from Mount Mizar. 17. PSALM 42 Unnamed foes taunt the psalmist with the question, "Where is thy God?" And, as it seems to answer, Would you not have me disquiet you, placed as I am here in so great evils? Scripture ref: Luke 16:19-23. {Nehemiah 11:19} The ascription of authorship to a group is remarkable, and has led to the suggestion that the superscription does not specify the authors, but the persons for whose use the psalms in question were composed. Psalm 41:3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 2 For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. There are at least three reasons why we can assume psalms 42 and 43 were originally joined together. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Verse 8: By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God my salvation [or Savior] and my God. And even though he says it looks as if God has forgotten him, he never stops believing in the absolute sovereignty of God over all his adversity. The form of the verbs "remember" and "pour out" in Psalms 42:4 indicates set purpose. Emotion varies, but God is the same. MATTHEW HENRY Psalm 42 Commentary WILLIAM HESLOP Psalms 40-49 Sermon Seeds from the Psalms WILLIAM HOLWICK Psalm 42:1-11 When You Are Really Down (see OT > Psalms) HOMILETICS - Pulpit Commentary Multiple Homilies GEORGE HORNE Psalm 42 Commentary JAMIESON, F, B Psalm 42 Commentary KEIL AND DELITZSCH Psalm 42 Commentary A F KIRKPATRICK What we do at church is a real transaction with the living God. But, considering that lovingkindness is in the Psalter mainly a Divine attribute, and that, when a human excellence, it is regarded as derived from and being the echo of experienced Divine mercy, it is best to take the passive meaning as the principal, though sometimes, as unmistakably here, the active is more suitable. 7. Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for you. Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. It is a birthday that is being celebrated (say they), there is a marriage here; that those songs may not appear out of place, but the luxurious indulgence may be excused by the festive occasion. Psalm 41:11. God being what He is, no longing soul can ever remain unsatisfied. We will be looking at this Psalm in three parts over the next three weeks. Edited by Philip Schaff. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. The heading above verse one tells us that Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks. (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. This is a holiday of such a kind, as neither to be opened by any dawn, nor terminated by any evening. My brother! Has learnt to put up with less. For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. Both psalms are individual laments. And he knows it. Expository Songs Psalm 42:1-2: Chandos Anthem No. I thought on these things, and poured out my soul above myself Psalm 41:4. Whither then shall I go from Your presence? For example, Isaac Watts wrote these verses to be sung: Thats not a jubilant song. These loveless people are not further defined, and may either have been Israelites or aliens. The superscription identifies the sons of Korah as the writers (or recipients) of this psalm. And He may give us them back if they no longer get in the way of allowing Him to meet our desires.) He longed for God, whom he confidently expected to be able to praise in the future when the Lord would deliver him. The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. Thus tremulous, timid, mobile, it is beautifully compared to a hind. For in tribulation every one must be profited by what he heard in the time of security. For the Psalm itself begins with a certain pious longing; and he who sings so, says, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God Psalm 41:1. Who is it then that says this? Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? Apr 24, 2020. The last twelve deal with instruction. In tribulation no man has leisure to hear: attend, when it is well with you; hear, when it is well with you; learn, when you are in tranquillity, the discipline of wisdom, and store up the word of God as you do food. Esther 5 - Mission Impossible. Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. This is not simply engaging in nostalgia. Therefore the refrain comes for a third time; and this time the longing, trembling soul continues at the height to which the better self has lifted it, and silently acknowledges that it need not have been cast down. Faith may have a long struggle with fear, but it will have the last word, and that word will be "the help of my countenance and my God. Perhaps because expository sermons take much diligence and study, many preachers look for an easier way. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for you, how will He not also with Him graciously give you all things? Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up; why have You forgotten me? Psalms 42 expresses the writers yearning for God. Once more, too, the higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement. Why then does Korah stand for Christ? Even he, my tempter, the devil; while offenses are everywhere on the increase, because of the abundance of which the love of many is waxing cold. 2. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. Fourth, the psalmist preaches to his own soul. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. preaching the gospel. There is with me prayer to the God of my life. Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? Psalm 41:10. Without it we die. God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. Dont take these times together lightly. When can I go and stand before him? send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . This remembrance will encourage us to continue to trust Him while we go through temporarily distressing periods. Men may speak, may be seen by the operations of their members, may be heard speaking in conversation: but whose thought is penetrated, whose heart seen into? aye, let them say it! Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. Deliver me, O my God! Rejected me, that is to say, from that height of the apprehension of the unchangeable Truth. Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. The psalm falls into three parts, each closing with the same refrain. And then once more above this conflict of emotion soars the clear note of the refrain, summoning to self-command, calmness, and unfaltering hope. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. Psalms 42:3)." For it is there is the house of my God. It had been so far strengthened by the encouragement of the refrain that the reflux of sadness at once rouses it to action. refreshing waters from a high hill. Dont compromise! It is useless to speculate on its origin. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. Verse 5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Let them still say, Where is your God? Sharing the love of God with the English speaking community of Calpe, SELECTED PSALMS FOR SUMMER 2. We don't know when the psalms were gathered into five books, but the separation dates back to before our oldest manuscripts, compiled in the Masoretic Text. Hes confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship. Who is to condemn? Arise, O Lord! Thus the whole song is a picture of a soul climbing, not without backward slips, from the depths to the heights, or, in another aspect, of the transformation of longing into certainty of fruition, which is itself fruition after a kind. The deer that knows its thirsty but has given up on trying to find a nice, cool stream thats always full of running water. (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Just as if his soul was silently replying to him, Why do I disquiet you, but because I am not yet there, where that delight is, to which I was, as it were, rapt for a moment? restoring the joy. What is meant by like the hart? For it is in hope that we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 11. Charles Spurgeon calls the first part a hymn and the second a sermon. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. 14. Perhaps there was one "man" of special mischief prominent among them, but it is not safe to treat that expression as anything but a collective. The effort of faith should be persistent, even if old bitternesses begin again and "break the low beginnings of content"; for, even if the wild waters burst through the dam once and again, they do not utterly wash it away, and there remains a foundation on which it may be built up anew. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Run to the fountain; long for the fountain; but do it not anyhow, be not satisfied with running like any ordinary animal; run thou like the hart. What I am saying, that as the hart pants after the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God, means this, My soul is thirsty for the living God. Descend then, that you may be lifted up: be not lifted up, lest you be cast down. The psalmist encouraged himself rhetorically by reminding himself that he would again praise God. 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