Psalms 42:10

10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 42:10 in Other Translations

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"

10 Their taunts break my bones. They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”

10 They're out for the kill, these tormentors with their obscenities, Taunting day after day, "Where is this God of yours?"

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

10 With a shattering blow to my bones, my enemies taunt me. They ask me all day long, "Where is your God?"

10 My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"

10 My body suffers deadly pain as my enemies make fun of me. All day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"

Psalms 42:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 42:10

[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me
The reproaches of his enemies were grievous and cutting to him, as if a sword pierced through the marrow in his bones, which, being very sensitive, gives exquisite pain. There is a various reading here: some copies, as Vatablus observes, read (b) , "in", or with, and others (k) , "as", which seems to be the truest; and our translators supply "as", to make the sense, though they read "with"; but some ^F14 only read "as"; and the sense is, the reproaches cast upon the psalmist were as a sword cutting and killing; and these reproaches were as follow;

while they say daily unto me, where [is] thy God?
(See Gill on Psalms 42:3).

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (xurk) (wv sfaghn) , Symmachus in Drusius; "ut occisio", Pagninus, Amama; so Aben Ezra interprets it.

Psalms 42:10 In-Context

8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 6:2
• 2. Deuteronomy 32:27; Psalms 44:16; Psalms 89:51; Psalms 102:8; Psalms 119:42
• 3. S ver 3