Pse. lxiii. 1; oxliii. 6; Iso. Iv. 1), The e.nd seeks to encourage and a praise it. And devout soul ie al we.ye athirst for God. David why art thou 10 disquieted in me l rather, felt hie severe.nee from the tabernacle and Why dost thou. make thy moan 011e,- me 1 its services e.e e. sort of severe.nee from literally, make a roari11g ·rwise like the sea God himself, whom he was e.ccastomed to (comp. Pa. xlvi. 3; Jer. iv. 19; v. 22). Hope upproo.ch through tbe services of the thou in God (comp. Ps~. xxxiii. 22; xxxix. sanctuary (see 2 Sam. xv. 25, 26). For the 7, etc.). For I shall yet praise him for the living God. Thie title of God occurs only help of his countenance. Another reading in one other psalm (Ps. l.uxiv. 2); bat it assimilates the refrain here to the form was e. title familiar to David (1 Sam. xvii. which it takes in ver. 11 and in Ps. xliii. 5. 27). It is first used in Dent. v. 26; and, Bnt, as Hengstenberg observes, Hebrew later, in Josh. iii. 10; 2 Kings xix. 4, 16; poets, and indeed poets generally, avoid e.n Isa. xxxvii. 4, 17 ; J er. x. 10; xxiii. 36; absolute identity of phraise, even in refrains Dan. vi. 26; Hos. i 10. It expresses that (see Pss. xxiv. 8, 10; xliL 12, 20; lvi. 4, essential attribute of God that he is "the 11, etc.). eternal Life" (1 John v. 20), the Source and Ver. 6.-0 my God, my soul is cast down Origin of all life, whether angelic, human, within me; or, bowed down, as in the first or animal. When shall I come and appear clause of ver. 5. Therefore will I remember before God 1 Appearance in the tabernacle thee. As a remedy for my depression, I will must here be specially meant, bat with this call thee to mind, and cast myself on thee. David connects his return to God's favour From the le.nd of J'orda.n. From the place aud to the light of his countene.noe (2 Sam. of my present abode-the Trans-Jordanic xv. 25). region-to which, on the revolt of Absalom, Ver. 8.-My tears have been mymee.t day David had fled (2 Sam. xvii. 2!). And of and night, while they continually say unto the Hermonites; rather, and of U1e Berm,ms. me, Where is thy God 1 (comp. Pa. lxxx. 9, Thie expression is not elsewhere UBed, and " Thou fcedest them with the bread of can only be explained conjecturally. It tears;" and Ovid, 'Metaph.,' x. 288, " Cum probably means the mountain ranges which, dolorque e.nimi, lachrymmque, alimenta starting from Hermon in the north, extend fuere"-"Theywho grieve deeply do not eat; in e. southerly direction down the entire they only weep;" yet they live on, so that Trane-Jordanio territory. From the hill their tears appear to be their aliment), llrlizar. This name occurs nowhere else; David's grief at being shut out from God'a and can bo R&signed to no special locality. presence ie intensified by the reproaches of Ver. 7.-Deep oalleth nnto deep at the his enemies, "Where is thy God?" i.e. "Is noise of thy waterspout■. Blow follows he not wholly gone from thee? Hae he not blow. Misfortunes "come not in single file, utterly cast thee off?" (comp. 2 Sam. xvi. 8). but in battalions." The imagery umy be Ver. 4.-When I remember these things ; takeu from the local storms that visit lho rather, tlteae tllings I remembe,--tho things Trans-Jordonio territory (see Lynch, 'Ex- remembered being those touohed on in the pedition to the Jordan and the Deud 8011,;' rest of the verse-his former free access to BIid Wilson, 'Negeb,' pp. 26, 27). All thy the house of God, and he.bit of frequenting waves and thy billows are gone over me it, especially on festival occe.eione, when the (comp. Pss. lxix. 1, 2; lxxxviii. 7, 17; multitude" kept holy day." "Deep sorrow," oxliv. 7). as Hengetenberg remarks, "tries to Jose Ver. 8.-Yet the Lord will oommand his it.elf in the recollection of the happier past." loving-kindness in the daytime. Notwith- I pour out my soul in me. "The heart standing ull these present woes, God will pour~ itJielf out, or melts in any one, who ie at soma time "command" his loving-kiml- in a manner dissolved by grief and po.in." nese to me.ko itself app~rent (comp. Pss. D11,vid docs not alleviate his sorrow, but xliv. 4; lxviii. 28), an,l both "in the day- aggravutes it, by thinking of tho happy time " and in the night will so comfort we poet. "Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi that his song shall ho with me, and my di tempo felice nella miserie." (Dante). For prayer unto the Ood of my life; i-.e. I slrnll I he.d gone (rather, hOUJ I went) with the offer him both praise e.nd pmycr continually multitude, I went with them to the house both day und night (Pd. xcii. 2) for his greut ot God, with the voice of joy and praise, mercies. with e. multitude that kept holy day (oomp. Ver. 9.-I will say unto Ood my Rock 2 Sam. vi. 12-19). (comp. Pss. xviii. 1; xxxi. 8). Why hast Ver. 5.-Why art thou cast down 1 or, thou forgotten me 1 (see tho comment on Why art tliou bowed d0ton f i.e. brought low Ps. xiii. 1). God does not forget oven when -a term indicative of the very extreme of he most eecme to forget (comp. Pee. i:x. 12 ; dejectitm. 0 my soul. The spirit, or higher xxxvii. 28). As the ovent showed, he ha.,l reneon, rebukes the "soul," or passionate not now forgotten David (~co 2 Sam. xix. nuture, for allowing itself to be so depressed, 9-40). Why go I mourning ba~uu~c ot 332 THE DOOK OF PSALMS. [rs. XLII. 1-11.
the oppression of the enemy! Why am I Ver. 11.-Why art thou oo.st down (or, RllowcJ to remain so long an exile, sorrowin"' bowed down), 0 my aoul 1 and why art thou nnd oppressed (comp. Ps. xliii. 2)? Eve~ disquieted within me 1 hope thou in Gild : to repentant sinners God's judgments are for I shall yet praise him. 'fhus for is apt to seem too severe, loo much prolonged, identical with ver. 5; but who.t follows is too grievous. sligbtly different: who is the health of my Ver. 10.-As with a sword in my bone., countenance, and my God, instead of " for mine enemies reproach me. The reproaches the help (health?) of his countenance." Most of his enemies wero as daggers struck into commentators assimilate the text in ver. 5 his bones; or, according to others, as blows to that of the present verse, which can be that cruslrnd his bones (LXX.). So keenly effected by a mere alteration of the pointing; did he feel them. The worst of all was that but Hcngstenberg, Kay, Professor Alex- they could say daily unto him, Where is thy ander, and others regard the variant forms God 1 What has become of him? Hl\s he as prefero.Lle. wholly forsaken thee (seo above, ver. 3)?