13. 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 AND XLIII. However, he came back to the same expression of confidence with which he ended the first stanza. A BIT OF BACKGROUND 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. This is a holiday of such a kind, as neither to be opened by any dawn, nor terminated by any evening. Psalm 22 is an excellent choice for a sermon on Good Friday because, according to Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34, Jesus, "the man of sorrows" (Is 53:3), voiced the haunting opening words of this magnificent psalm, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" in his dying moment on the cross of Golgotha. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! Once more the contending currents meet in Psalms 42:9 and Psalms 42:10, in the former of which confidence and hope utter themselves in the resolve to appeal to God and in the name given to Him as "my Rock"; while another surge of despondency breaks, in the question in which the soul interrogates God, as the better self had interrogated her, and contrasts almost reproachfully Gods apparent forgetfulness, manifested by His delay in deliverance with her remembrance of Him. 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. It is ourselves, if we be but willing! 14. 42-72 In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. It had been so far strengthened by the encouragement of the refrain that the reflux of sadness at once rouses it to action. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. How could it happen? Thats what hes seeking jubilant hope. I, who tremble all over, when my soul was disquieted on account of myself, feared greatly on account of Your judgments.Are those judgments slight ones? Let then our understanding be roused: and if the Psalm be sung to us, let us follow it with our understanding.Run to the brooks; long after the water-brooks. Esther 2:1-18 - The Best Beauty Pageant Ever. The correspondence between mans needs and their true object is involved in that name "the living God"; for a heart can rest only in one all-sufficient Person, and must have a heart to throb against. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. 4) Paul's sermon at the synagogue (Acts 13:16-41) involves an exposition of the prophecies of the Old Testament and a revealing of the hearts of his listeners: They are a people who may become scoffers and eventually unbelieving. Again that voice! Psalms 42:5 has the refrain in a form slightly different from that of the other two instances of its occurrence. 11-22. Whilst therefore it is summer, while it is well with you, while you are in tranquillity, hear the word of the Lord. Lecture 1: Expository Preaching of the Psalms - Dr. Steven Lawson The Master's Seminary 104K subscribers Subscribe 598 Share Save 45K views 10 years ago TMS Archives: Expository Preaching. Two-person skit: the chained, the Devil (2.) When spiritually dry, we who are believers should remind ourselves that God is sufficient for all our needs. He does not show that He is your Helper, unless tribulation come, from whence you must be rescued by Him who promised it to you in the day-time. 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.". "Korah, Asaph, Heman, and Ethan are all associated with the service and music of the sanctuary in Davids reign. Last week's psalm was an unusually long one for the Psalm of Ascents, but this week we are back to a short psalm. ), 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. I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. Romans6:12-13 I admire the sight of the bodily members warring in the service of the soul that serves God.And wonderful though the tabernacle be, yet when I come to the house of God, I am even struck dumb with astonishment. Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. 1. Who is to condemn? 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. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. Has learnt to put up with less. Methods devised to proclaim gospel. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. Verses 12: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. So the higher mood conquers at last, and breaks into a burst of joyous petition, which passes swiftly into realisation of the future joys whose coming shines thus far off. Why hope? A Heart for the Lord - Psalm 84. Psalm 41:5. At our very core we have a desire that only God can meet. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. And when these are heard, what do we passers by say? Because Korah is equivalent to Calvaria.Therefore, the sons of the bridegroom, the sons of His Passion, the sons redeemed by His Blood, the sons of His Cross, who bear on their forehead that which His enemies erected on Calvary, are called the sons of Korah; to them is this Psalm sung as a Psalm for understanding. The unity is vouched by the considerations already noticed, and by the incompleteness of Psalms 42:1-11 without such triumphant close and of Psalms 43:1-5 without such despondent beginning. Who shall bring any charge against you as Gods elect? It "pants" and "thirsts," is "cast down" and disquieted; it is "poured out"; it can be bidden to "hope." The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. A Primer on Prayer - Psalm 28. 16. 118-29.]. Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:11; Psalms 43:5). The stage of mechanical repetition of complaints is not far from that of cessation of them. Descend then, that you may be lifted up: be not lifted up, lest you be cast down. She lays up in summer what will be useful to her in winter. preaching the gospel. 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? He hacked into the Harvard server, downloaded private dormitory ID photos, and posted them on his blog. Esther 5 - Mission Impossible. He who has life in Himself is the Giver and Rescuer of our lives, and to Him they are to be rendered in thankful sacrifice. And may He grant our desire through the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (vv. Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . This is not so yet, because the salvation which is promised, is not as yet in being; but it is in hope that I confess unto God, and say, My God is the saving health of my countenance. These loveless people are not further defined, and may either have been Israelites or aliens. If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? How do you do that pastor?, Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you? For he said not, My tears became my drink, lest he should seem to have longed for them, as for the water-brooks: but, still retaining that thirst wherewith I burn, and by which I am hurried away towards the water-brooks, My tears became my meat, while I am not yet there. 17. In the waves that deep calls; in the overhangings is the other deep which it calls to. While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? 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. He just said in verse 8, By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me.. 63.]. 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. 1 As the deer pants for streams of water. (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. 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. 1-10 and (2) vv. The superscription identifies the sons of Korah as the writers (or recipients) of this psalm. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. This remembrance will encourage us to continue to trust Him while we go through temporarily distressing periods. Youve learned deeply that its no relief to say that God does not rule the wind and the waves. It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. So once more the wave of emotion rolls over the psalmist, but with a new aspect which makes all the difference. The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. Servanthood What does it mean to be a servant of Christ. It may have been so, but the supposition is unnecessary. Edited by Philip Schaff. For men saw their torments outwardly; they did not inwardly behold their crowns! 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. From whence did I remember you? To the contrary, it is uncomforted, miserable and unsatisfied. The "soul" is the seat of emotions and desires. It is useless to speculate on its origin. He remembers past corporate worship experiences. It begins with a cluster of seven psalms (reckoning Psalms 42:1-11; Psalms 43:1-5, as one) of which the superscription is most probably regarded as ascribing their authorship to "the sons of Korach." For he compared these things in which he found himself, to those toward which he had been raised; and saw himself cast out far from the sight of God's eyes, as he speaks even here, Why have You rejected me? They keep him from capsizing in the tumult of his emotions. The twofold emotions of Psalms 42:6 recur in Psalms 42:7-8, where we have first renewed despondency and then reaction into hope. And whither shall I flee from Your Spirit? Verses 1-11 II. So cried our Head also, as if speaking in our name. Are they not a kind of harts that the Apostle addresses, saying, Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Law of Christ? LEARNING TO DESIRE 9. Individual rather than corporate. That's what he's seeking - jubilant hope. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. The heading above verse one tells us that Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks. Korah was a great-grandson of Levi who rebelled against Moses leadership (Numbers 16:1-2). The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. To what mortal's lot has it fallen? So, the psalmist affirms God's sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. Verses 5 and 6 make clear that any strength the Psalmist will have does not reside in self, but in God. Without it we die. Each swing of the gymnast lifts him higher until he is on a level with a firm platform on which he can spring and stand secure. But more important than any of that is God Himself. He has fixed forever and made melodious a sigh. 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. When tribulation shall actually come, He will not leave you destitute of His help; He will show you that which He commended to you in the daytime is true. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Scripture: PSALM 42:1-11, PSALM 43:1-5 Inner-Turmoil David Cawston Psalm 42:1-11; Psalm 43:1-5 Introduction: I have a churning place, it's in my stomach just below my rib cage. seeing that deep calls to deep, and after those sufferings severer ones are to be dreaded. Beginning with a general introduction on how pastors can interpret and preach from the biblical psalms and why they should Greidanus proceeds by discussing twenty-two psalms in the Revised Common Lectionary, Year . Yet, with the strange but universal love of summoning up remembrance of departed joys, the psalmist finds a certain pleasure in the pain of recalling how he. 1:1-. The deer that rejects water. Doesnt believe in it, doesnt long for it, or doesnt know they long for it. What then is the abyss that calls, and to what other abyss does it call? My God is the saving health of my countenance. Translated by J.E. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. For I will confess unto Him. I am thirsty in my pilgrimage, in my running; I shall be filled on my arrival. Where, I pray, is your God? But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer! He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. For in tribulation every one must be profited by what he heard in the time of security. Why have You forgotten me? Rather than drinking from God, he had to drink the water of his own tears. Weve got to preach it to ourselves, and preach diligently and forcefully, or well give way to a downcast and disquieted spirit. THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. 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. But yet, Why have You forgotten me? she must be up to something. For when I was pouring out my soul above myself, in order to reach my God, why did I do so? That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. Psalms 42:10 repeats the enemies taunt, which is there represented as like crushing blows which broke the bones. They retained the former office in the second Temple. 3. No, but calls on is equivalent to calls to him. Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. RELATING TO THE PSALM The imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been occasioned by the poets locality. Soul. Accept that we may need to make effort. Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. 4. The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. 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. 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. 428.] Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. 2. Sharing the love of God with the English speaking community of Calpe, SELECTED PSALMS FOR SUMMER 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. 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. a Levite, led the festal march to the Temple, and in listening in fancy again to the shrill cries of joy which broke from the tumultuous crowd. These were Levites, and (according to 1 Chronicles 9:19 seq.) They are sons of the bridegroom, sons of Christ. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) What abyss is this that calls, and to what other abyss? When disturbing things happen, when troubling words are said, when certain letters contain ugly words or extremely critical comments are read, the churning starts. Unnamed foes taunt the psalmist with the question, "Where is thy God?" Naturally this transition strophe is marked by the mingling of both. Thus one might think of this book as "the book of Elohim.". 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. Psalm 41:10. This morning, I want to quickly offer us (be me, specifically) some hope when dealing with discouragement. 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. Then follows a gleam of hope, like a rainbow spanning the waterfall. I will not fear . 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? This conflict of opposite emotions is the characteristic of the second part of the psalm, while that of the first part is an all but unrelieved predominance of gloom, and that of the third an all but undisputed victory of sunshine. 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. Expository Songs Psalm 42:1-2: Chandos Anthem No. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. But the curb has not been applied quite in vain, for throughout the succeeding verses there is a striking alternation of despondency and hope. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmist's prayer in response to the lament. 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. 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. Once more, too, the higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement. 1Corinthians10:12 Therefore since there is no soundness in me for myself, there is no hope either for me of myself. Psalms 42:5). 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? Water the key theme in the Psalm. It has been ingeniously conjectured by Delitzsch that the Korachite psalms originally formed a separate collection entitled "Songs of the Sons of Korach," and that this title afterwards passed over into the superscriptions when they were incorporated in the Psalter. Light and Troth-i.e., Lovingkindness and Faithfulness in fulfilling promises-are like two angels, despatched from the presence-chamber of God, to guide with gentleness the exiles steps. For it is the strong members that are the bones; and sometimes even those that are strong sink under their temptations. 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? The enemy is called a "loveless nation." What sacrifice of a troubled spirit I have within, hear. Devil; Wraps chains around the chained (3.) Psalm 41:3. The same construction is found in Book 1 in Psalms 25:1-22; Psalms 26:1-12; Psalms 27:1-14; Psalms 28:1-9; Psalms 35:1-28; Psalms 37:1-40 where it is obviously the designation of authorship, and it is naturally taken to have the same force in these Korachite psalms. 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. Response to the psalm the imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been by! 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