Salmos 42:3

3 Día y noche sólo me alimento de lágrimas,
mientras que mis enemigos se burlan continuamente de mí diciendo:
«¿Dónde está ese Dios tuyo?».

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 L
Señor
(Salmos 42–72)
Salmo 42
Para el director del coro: salmo
de los descendientes de Coré.
Como el ciervo anhela las corrientes de las aguas,
así te anhelo a ti, oh Dios.

2 Tengo sed de Dios, del Dios viviente.
¿Cuándo podré ir para estar delante de él?

3 Día y noche sólo me alimento de lágrimas,
mientras que mis enemigos se burlan continuamente de mí diciendo:
«¿Dónde está ese Dios tuyo?».

4 Se me destroza el corazón
al recordar cómo solían ser las cosas:
yo caminaba entre la multitud de adoradores,
encabezaba una gran procesión hacia la casa de Dios,
cantando de alegría y dando gracias
en medio del sonido de una gran celebración.

5 ¿Por qué estoy desanimado?
¿Por qué está tan triste mi corazón?
¡Pondré mi esperanza en Dios!
Nuevamente lo alabaré,
¡mi Salvador y