A quick reading of this Psalm suggests there are two divisions: (1) vv. My God is the saving health of my countenance. My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. 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. The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. Justly, because the understanding spoken of is an abyss. 9 ). To the contrary, it is uncomforted, miserable and unsatisfied. 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. Feel guilty about not desiring God more. Devil; Wraps chains around the chained (3.) Two-person skit: the chained, the Devil (2.) Esther TOP. This it is for which I am thirsty, to come and to appear before Him. 18. 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. : 42:2-6) The . He designed us that way. 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? Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. The title then of it is, On the end: a Psalm for understanding for the sons of Korah. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. Individual rather than corporate. Water the key theme in the Psalm. 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. restoring the joy. 1. They who trouble me cast me in the teeth. For in order to making supplication unto God, I have not to buy anything from places beyond the sea; or in order that He may hear me, have I to sail to bring from a distance frankincense and perfumes, or have I to bring calf or ram from the flock. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. The "soul" is the seat of emotions and desires. My tears (he says) have been not bitterness, but my bread. Again that voice! 428.] The Point Of Psalms 34 How does he solve it? Hes confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. 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. It may have been so, but the supposition is unnecessary. 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. Then follows a gleam of hope, like a rainbow spanning the waterfall. A. It is not however one individual, but it is One Body; but Christ's Body is the Church. In other words, all his crashing and tumultuous and oppressing and discouraging circumstances are the waves of God. 1. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. So, he asks Why? Its a legitimate question. These loveless people are not further defined, and may either have been Israelites or aliens. Thus one might think of this book as "the book of Elohim.". Download File. 17. My brother! Why have You rejected me? 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. And he knows it. Whither then shall I go from Your presence? It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. In the mean while dwell in hope: for hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. The certainty of return to the Temple overbears the pain of absence from it, and the vivid realisation of the gladness of worshipping again at the altar takes the place of the vivid remembrance of former festal approach thither. 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. 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. 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. Hear what else there is in the hart. Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. The region intended seems to be "the northeastern corner of Palestine, near the lower slopes of Hermons" (Cheyne. 118-29.]. He ends with naming Him "the gladness of my joy." Streaks of brightness flash through the gloom. 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. {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. 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. They are sons of the bridegroom, sons of Christ. Faithbook (Psalm 133) On October 28, 2003, a Harvard student by the name of Mark Zuckerberg was bored. It is a faith that has uncertainty in it; it is tinged by shades of doubt. So ends the first of the psalms; but obviously it is no real ending, for the victory over fear is not won, and longing has not become blessed. The facts on which faith feeds abide while faith fluctuates. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . Korah was a great-grandson of Levi who rebelled against Moses leadership (Numbers 16:1-2). 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? The situation is described as in the preceding parts. (Doesnt mean they are bad. Accept that we may need to make effort. Verse 5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 18:3.) (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) 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. Many ingenious attempts have been made to explain the name either as symbolical or as a common noun, and not a proper name, but these need not be dealt with here. As for your fatigue in hearing, I am not greatly solicitous, since you see me also, who speak, toiling in the heat of these exertions. The imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been occasioned by the poets locality. And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. The secret of calm is to dwell in that inner chamber of the secret place of the Most High, which whoso inhabits "heareth not the loud winds when they call," and is neither dejected nor uplifted, neither disturbed by excessive joys nor torn by anxieties. Verses 1-11 II. For you do not doubt of your God. But the gloomier mood has shot its last bolt. The last twelve deal with instruction. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts, in that Thou threatenest, You say, that there is another condemnation in store even after those sufferings. Key idea here is longing for God when in a wilderness situation. Oh, how many of you have learned this more deeply than me because of the waves that have broken over your lives. So once more the wave of emotion rolls over the psalmist, but with a new aspect which makes all the difference. He has fixed forever and made melodious a sigh. A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99 1. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. He hacked into the Harvard server, downloaded private dormitory ID photos, and posted them on his blog. Devil" I've got it I've stolen his JOY" (4.) But no finite being can still them; and after all sweetnesses of human loves and helps of human strengths the souls thirst remains unslaked, and the Person who is enough must be the living God. [Note: For the meaning of Maskil, see my note on Psalms 32.] The name "Elohim" occurs 164 times in this section of the Psalms, and the name "Yahweh" ("LORD") appears only 30 times. 8. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. The feminine soul has to give account of her moods to calmer judgment, and to be lifted and steadied by the strong spirit. I, so long as I do not see, so long as my happiness is postponed, make my tears my bread day and night. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. Learnt to live with disappointment and disillusionment., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 4 For I will go into the place of Your wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God. THE VANITY OF SELF EFFORT. 14. . silence is not always golden. This too proceeds from that longing, of which in another place comes that cry, One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Psalm 41:9. In the midst of the tumult of emotions, were not always careful with our words. preaching the gospel. 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? May the Lord increase our hunger and our thirst to see the face of God. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). And assuredly he does but the more thirst for the water-brooks from making his tears his meat.And they daily say unto me, Where is your God? ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. Update: Here is my sermon on Psalm 6 (video and manuscript) And whither shall I flee from Your Spirit? AND XLIII. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. He began with yearning after the living God. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. 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. It is God who justifies. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up; why have You forgotten me? (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) It is sufficiently distinct in tone to explain its separation from the preceding, inasmuch as it is prayer throughout, and the note of joy is dominant, even while an undertone of sadness links it with the previous parts. Original setting not known. But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer! Esther 1 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish. Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. The psalm falls into three parts, each closing with the same refrain. Its not wrong to want relief and to pray for it. 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. I may perhaps finish the Psalm, aided as I am by your attention, whose fervour I perceive. It is sometimes right to pray for the defeat of enemies. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! Acts 4:25). 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. Psalm 41:3. He needed to continue to hope in God until then. The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. 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. There is another point to be observed in the hart. Longings and tears, remembrances of festal hours passed in the sanctuary melt the singers soul, while taunting enemies hiss continual sarcasms at him as forsaken by his God. 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. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. But the victory is not quite won, and therefore Psalms 43:1-5, follows. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. In this Psalm David, who is himself a shepherd, describes the LORD as his own personal shepherd. The bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. 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. Once more, too, the higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement. But yet, Why have You forgotten me? "My soul is cast down; therefore let me remember Thee." For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. God means for these encounters with Him in corporate worship to preserve your faith now and in the way you remember them later. (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. [Note: Merrill, "Psalms," p. Understand that God may use suffering to refocus our deepest desires on Him. 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.. So, let me invite you to take your copy of Gods Word and turn to Psalm 42. From that everlasting perpetual festivity, a certain sweet and melodious strain strikes on the ears of the heart, provided only the world do not drown the sounds. 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. While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? Psalm 42:2. Esther 2:1-18 - The Best Beauty Pageant Ever. Psalms 42:3)." Numbers 26:10-11) were distinguished musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31-48). 1 As the deer pants for streams of water. 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. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Whilst therefore it is summer, while it is well with you, while you are in tranquillity, hear the word of the Lord. Psalm 41:10. The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. Hope in God. The heading above verse one tells us that Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. For I am suffering here, even as if You had forgotten me. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. 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. It suggests that the psalmists faith will bridge over the interval between himself and the sanctuary: I can send my thoughts to Thee from the distant frontier" (in loc.). Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. 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. 4. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. The first time we see it in Bible history is in I Chronicles 16, when King David is bringing up the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your 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. Grief which finds no fresh words is beginning to dry up. 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? Yet we must even now take notice of this title in such a way, that what we have said already should be no prejudice against our saying it again: for all were not present in every place where we said it. send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . Esther 3:7-15 - The First PLO. It is on my own account it is disquieted. 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 likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. The psalmist's longing for God 42:1-5 The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. 2. Why sons of Korah? (vv. A BIT OF BACKGROUND Start With Prayer. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. They are great ones, severe, hard to bear; but would they were all. But even these bitter sarcasms are less bitter than the remembrance of "happier things," which is his "sorrows crown of sorrow." The sons of Korah (cf. 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