Psalms 42:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

KJV

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ASV

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

WEB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

YLT

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'

DBT

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thyGod?

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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22 verses on the floor

Psalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 79:10
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalms 115:2
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Psalms 3:2
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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Reproached by his enemies, still hopes in him, ver. 10, 11. To the chief musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. Sons of Korah - Who were an eminent order of singers in the house of God, 1 Chron. vi, 33.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Even the royal prophet was a weeping prophet when he wanted the comforts of God's house. His tears were mingled with his meat; nay, they were his meat day and night; he fed, he feasted, upon his own tears, when there was such just cause for them; and it was a satisfaction to him that he found his heart so much affected with a grievance of this nature.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 42:3PSA 115:2 PSA 79:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 42:3PSA 115:2 PSA 42:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 42:3JOE 2:17 PSA 115:2
PSA 42:3PSA 42:10 JOE 2:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 42:3JOE 2:17 EZE 8:16
PSA 42:3PSA 80:5 ISA 30:20
PSA 42:3PSA 80:5 PSA 102:9
PSA 42:3JOE 2:17 AMO 7:2

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