Salmos 42:3

3 Mis lágrimas son mi pan de día y de noche,mientras me echan en cara a todas horas:«¿Dónde está tu Dios?»

Salmos 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Salmos 42:3 In-Context

1 Cual ciervo jadeante en busca del agua,así te busca, oh Dios, todo mi ser.
2 Tengo sed de Dios, del Dios de la vida.¿Cuándo podré presentarme ante Dios?
3 Mis lágrimas son mi pan de día y de noche,mientras me echan en cara a todas horas:«¿Dónde está tu Dios?»
4 Recuerdo esto y me deshago en llanto:yo solía ir con la multitud,y la conducía a la casa de Dios.Entre voces de alegría y acciones de graciashacíamos gran celebración.
5 ¿Por qué voy a inquietarme?¿Por qué me voy a angustiar?En Dios pondré mi esperanzay todavía lo alabaré.¡Él es mi Salvador y mi Dios!
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