Salmos 42:1-6

1 Como el ciervo brama por las corrientes de las aguas, así clama por ti, oh Dios, el alma mía

2 Mi alma tuvo sed de Dios, del Dios vivo. ¡Cuándo vendré, y compareceré delante de Dios

3 Fueron mis lágrimas mi pan de día y de noche, mientras me decían todos los días: ¿Dónde está tu Dios

4 De estas cosas me acordaré, y derramaré mi alma sobre mí. Cuando pasaré en el número, iré con ellos hasta la Casa de Dios, con voz de alegría y de alabanza, bailando la multitud

5 ¿Por qué te abates, oh alma mía, y bramas contra mí? Espera a Dios; porque aún le tengo de alabar por el bienestar de su presencia

6 Dios mío, mi alma está en mí abatida; por tanto me acordaré de ti desde la tierra del Jordán, y de los hermonitas, desde el monte de Mizar

Salmos 42:1-6 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.