All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. religion or Christ. When I have laughed at the stone, and he who pointed to it has been put to the blush, he raises his eyes from the stone, looks up to heaven, and perhaps says, pointing his finger to the Sun, Behold there my God! 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 The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. Mountain Hill Church, All rights reserved, Website Created by Digital Design Solutions, New Life in the Spirit (Part 1) Romans 8:1-17. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. In building the Lord's house. Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. A. He Sings Again, 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." This is not a song of jubilant hope. If it is, the second part of the psalm is also conformed to the other two in regard to its not beginning with the Divine name. [Note: Bullock, p. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. For that hart that made tears its bread day and night, borne along by longing to the water-brooks (that is, to the spiritual delights of God), pouring forth his soul above himself, that he may attain to what is above his own soul, walking towards the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God, and led on by the sweetness of that inward spiritual sound to feel contempt for all outward things, and be borne on to things spiritual, is but a mortal man still; is still groaning here, still bearing about the frailty of flesh, still in peril in the midst of the offenses Matthew18:7 of this world. The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. I may perhaps finish the Psalm, aided as I am by your attention, whose fervour I perceive. Source. The bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. He states the very words of that confession; he repeats the grounds on which he fortifies his hope. * By Rev. If they find themselves thirsty they describe the desire as fairy story or suchlike. Perhaps the singer had seen, during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan, some gentle creature, with open mouth and heaving flanks, eagerly seeking in dry wadies for a drop of water to cool her outstretched tongue; and the sight had struck on his heart as an image of himself longing for the presence of God in the sanctuary. The Jordan Valley is quite wide north of this sea and the mountains of Hermon rise up to the east from it. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. God was not providing for his needs just then. The break in the clouds is but momentary, and the grey wrack fills the sky once more. And then once more above this conflict of emotion soars the clear note of the refrain, summoning to self-command, calmness, and unfaltering hope. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . He has fixed forever and made melodious a sigh. PSALM 42 The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. Learnt to live with disappointment and disillusionment., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 4 A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. 14. How does the Psalmist know this? And on this account, seeing my soul is disquieted on account of myself, what else should I say unto it than those words: Why are you cast down, O my soul; and why do you disquiet me? Dont take these times together lightly. Colossians1:24 Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church: let all however who have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and who own in Christ that for which they have a relish, think that they are not the only ones; but that there are such seeds scattered throughout the field of the Lord, this whole earth: and that there is a certain Christian unity, whose voice thus speaks, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God. It is on my own account it is disquieted. 2. There is much in the psalms which favours the hypothesis that the author was a Korachite companion of Davids in his flight before Absalom; but the locality, described as that of the singer, does not entirely correspond to that of the kings retreat, and the description of the enemies is not easily capable of application in all points to his foes. It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. This it is for which I am thirsty, to come and to appear before Him. Some scholars believe David wrote these psalms for the sons of Korah to perform. The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor. 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. This man was in exile and it depressed him. He calls past experiences to mind. Rejected me, that is to say, from that height of the apprehension of the unchangeable Truth. We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. 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 waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. . A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. PSALM 51:1-2. Therefore the psalm must be pre-exilic; and while there is no certainty attainable as to date, it may at least be said that the circumstances of the singer present more points of contact with those of the supposed Korachite follower of Davids fortunes on the uplands across Jordan than with those of any other of the imaginary persons to whom modern criticism has assigned the poem. What sacrifice of a troubled spirit I have within, hear. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. : 42:2-6) The . Psalms 42-72 (Reformed Expository Commentary) Hardcover - November 11, 2019 by Richard D. Phillips (Author) 11 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $33.98 4 New from $23.88 In the inspired poems of the Psalms, we find the full range of human emotions laid bare before the heart of God and in settings familiar to our experience. For I will confess unto Him. Then follows a gleam of hope, like a rainbow spanning the waterfall. 3. Servanthood What does it mean to be a servant of Christ. In the former part, memory was the handmaid of sorrow, and came involuntarily, and increased the singers pain; but in this part he makes an effort of will to remember, and in remembrance finds an antidote to sorrow. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Psalm 127. And since it is said to you, Disregard this or that thing, if you prefer working iniquity to despising some temporal good, you choose to be bitten by a serpent, rather than destroy it. Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. Perhaps there was something in there for you too. 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. Lo, we have just now been gladdened by certain inward delights: with the mind's eye we have been able to behold, though but with a momentary glance, something not susceptible of change: why do you still disquiet me, why are you still cast down? Therefore now he triumphs, and though he still is keenly conscious of his enemies, they appear but for a moment, and though he still feels that he is far from the sanctuary, his heart goes out in hopeful visions of the gladness of his return thither, and he already tastes the rapture of the joy that will then flood his heart. 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. I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. AS THE DEER PANTS FOR STREAMS OF WATER. aye, let them say it! 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? But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. Whither then shall I go from Your presence? You may see not my flesh merely, but even my bones. The locality thus designated is too far north for the scene of Davids retreat before Absalom, unless we give an unusual southward extension to the names; and this makes a difficulty in the way of accepting the hypothesis of the authors having been in his retinue. sermons and saints. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99 1. Strip away allow God to strip away all the things that give us temporary satisfaction. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. All Your overhangings and Your waves have come upon me. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. With the alternation of mood already noticed as characteristic, the singer looks forward, even from the midst of overwhelming seas of trouble, to a future day when God will give His angel, Mercy or Lovingkindness, charge concerning him and draw him out of many waters. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. It has been much disputed whether its proper signification is active (one who shows lovingkindness) or passive (one who receives it). And when these are heard, what do we passers by say? The imagery of floods lifting up their voices, and cataracts sounding as they fall, and breaking waves rolling over the half-drowned psalmist has been supposed to be suggested by the scenery in which he was; but the rushing noise of Jordan in its rocky bed seems scarcely enough to deserve being described as "flood calling to flood," and "breakers and rollers" is an exaggeration if applied to any commotion possible on such a stream. 334.]. Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 18:3.) [Note: For the meaning of Maskil, see my note on Psalms 32.] He compared the noise of the waves to his troubles, that he personified as calling to one another to come and overwhelm him. Why have You forgotten me? 4. The "soul" is feminine in Hebrew, and is here compared to the female deer, for "pants" is the feminine form of the verb, though its noun is masculine. I, so long as I do not see, so long as my happiness is postponed, make my tears my bread day and night. Hope thou in God; for I will yet confess unto Him Psalm 41:11. To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers me from His holy hill. 63.]. The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night-time will He declare it.There is with me prayer unto the God of my life. True Repentance - Psalm 51. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. 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. When the Rumors are Not True - Psalm 26. For God's tabernacle on earth is the faithful; I admire in them the obedience of even their bodily members: that in them Sin does not reign so that they should obey its lusts; neither do they yield their members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but unto the living God in good works. John 4:14). He may not have asked the question with theological or linguistic precision, but if he proves in time that he didnt mean that God had forgotten him, we will let that be words for the wind. For it is in hope that we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 11. So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. 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. DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 1 Compared the noise of the oppression of the apprehension of the enemy am by attention. Your overhangings and Your waves have come upon me the Rumors are not True - Psalm 26 while breaks... 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