Salmi 42:3

3 Le mie lagrime sono il mio cibo giorno e notte, Mentre mi è detto tuttodì: Dove è il tuo Dio?

Salmi 42:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my meat day and night
That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, 1Sa 1:7,8;
or while he was eating tears fell in plenty, and they were as common, day and night, as his food, and mixed with it ^F6; see ( Psalms 80:5 ) ;

while they continually say unto me,
his enemies the Philistines,

where [is] thy God?
theirs were to be seen and pointed at, as the host of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, and idols of gold, silver, brass, wood, and stone; wherefore they ask, where was his? but David's God was invisible; he is in the heavens, and does what he pleases, ( Psalms 115:2 Psalms 115:3 ) ; or the sense is, that if there was such a God he believed in and professed, and he was his servant, surely he would never have suffered him to fall into so much distress and calamity, but would have appeared for his relief and deliverance; and therefore tauntingly, and by way of reproach, ask where he was.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 "--lachrymaeque alimenta fuere", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 10. Fab. 1. v. 75.

Salmi 42:3 In-Context

1 Maschil de’ figliuoli di Core, dato al capo de’ Musici COME il cervo agogna i rivi dell’acque, Così l’anima mia agogna te, o Dio.

2 L’anima mia è assetata di Dio, dell’Iddio vivente. Quando verrò, e comparirò io nel cospetto di Dio?

3 Le mie lagrime sono il mio cibo giorno e notte, Mentre mi è detto tuttodì: Dove è il tuo Dio?

4 Io mi verso addosso l’anima mia Quando mi riduco in memoria queste cose; Che io passava in ischiera, E camminava con essa infino alla Casa di Dio, Con voce di canto e di lode, la moltitudine facendo festa.

5 Anima mia, perchè ti abbatti, e ti commovi in me? Aspetta Iddio; perciocchè ancora lo celebrerò; Il suo aspetto è compiuta salvezza.