Salmos 42:1-10

1 Como o cervo anseia pelas correntes das águas, assim a minha alma anseia por ti, ó Deus!

2 A minha alma tem sede de Deus, do Deus vivo; quando entrarei e verei a face de Deus?

3 As minhas lágrimas têm sido o meu alimento de dia e de noite, porquanto se me diz constantemente: Onde está o teu Deus?

4 Dentro de mim derramo a minha alma ao lembrar-me de como eu ia com a multidão, guiando-a em procissão � casa de Deus, com brados de júbilo e louvor, uma multidão que festejava.

5 Por que estás abatida, ó minha alma, e por que te perturbas dentro de mim? Espera em Deus, pois ainda o louvarei pela salvação que há na sua presença.

6 Ó Deus meu, dentro de mim a minha alma está abatida; porquanto me lembrarei de ti desde a terra do Jordão, e desde o Hermom, desde o monte Mizar.

7 Um abismo chama outro abismo ao ruído das tuas catadupas; todas as tuas tuas ondas e vagas têm passado sobre mim.

8 Contudo, de dia o Senhor ordena a sua bondade, e de noite a sua canção está comigo, uma oração ao Deus da minha vida.

9 A Deus, a minha rocha, digo: Por que te esqueceste de mim? por que ando em pranto por causa da opressão do inimigo?

10 Como com ferida mortal nos meus ossos me afrontam os meus adversários, dizendo-me continuamente: Onde está o teu Deus?

Salmos 42:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. Of the word "Maschil," See Gill on "Ps 32:1," title. Korah was he who was at the head of a conspiracy against Moses and Aaron, for which sin the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed alive him and his company, and fire devoured two hundred and fifty more; the history of which is recorded in Numbers 16:1; yet all his posterity were not cut off, Numbers 26:11; some were in David's time porters, or keepers of the gates of the tabernacle, and some were singers; see 1 Chronicles 6:33; and to the chief musician was this psalm directed for them to sing, for they were not the authors of it, as some {b} have thought; but most probably David himself composed it; and it seems to have been written by him, not as representing the captives in Babylon, as Theodoret, but on his own account, when he was persecuted by Saul, and driven out by men from abiding in the Lord's inheritance, and was in a strange land among the Heathen, where he was reproached by them; and everything in this psalm agrees with his state and condition; or rather when he fled from his son Absalom, and was in those parts beyond Jordan, mentioned in this psalm; see 2 Samuel 17:24; so the Syriac inscription, the song which David sung in the time of his persecution, desiring to return to Jerusalem.

{b} So R. Moses in Muis, Gussetius, Ebr. Comment. p. 918, & others.