Salmos 42:3

3 Mis lágrimas han sido mi alimento de día y de noche, mientras me dicen todo el día: ¿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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Salmos 42:3 In-Context

1 Como el ciervo anhela las corrientes de agua, así suspira por ti, oh Dios, el alma mía.

2 Mi alma tiene sed de Dios, del Dios viviente; ¿cuándo vendré y me presentaré delante de Dios?

3 Mis lágrimas han sido mi alimento de día y de noche, mientras me dicen todo el día: ¿Dónde está tu Dios?

4 Me acuerdo de estas cosas y derramo mi alma dentro de mí; de cómo iba yo con la multitud y la guiaba hasta la casa de Dios, con voz de alegría y de acción de gracias, con la muchedumbre en fiesta.

5 ¿Por qué te abates, alma mía, y por qué te turbas dentro de mí? Espera en Dios, pues he de alabarle otra vez por la salvación de su presencia.