Salmos 42:1-10

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

6 mi Dios!
Ahora estoy profundamente desalentado,
pero me acordaré de ti,
aun desde el lejano monte Hermón, donde nace el Jordán,
desde la tierra del monte Mizar.

7 Oigo el tumulto de los embravecidos mares,
mientras me arrasan tus olas y las crecientes mareas.

8 Pero cada día el Señor
derrama su amor inagotable sobre mí,
y todas las noches entono sus cánticos
y oro a Dios, quien me da vida.

9 «¡Oh Dios, roca mía! —clamo—,
¿por qué me has olvidado?
¿Por qué tengo que andar angustiado,
oprimido por mis enemigos?».

10 Sus insultos me parten los huesos.
Se burlan diciendo: «¿Dónde está ese Dios tuyo?».

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.