Psalms 42:1
{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
In Context
2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Cross References
Exodus 6:24And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites.
Numbers 16:32And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
1 Chronicles 6:22The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 25:1And David and the captains of the host separated for the service those of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun who were to prophesy with harps and lutes and cymbals; and the number of the men employed according to their service was:
Psalms 45:1{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth [with] a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms 47:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of triumph!
Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:1
If the book of Psalms be, as some have styled it, a mirror or looking-glass of pious and devout affections, this psalm in particular deserves, as much as any one psalm, to be so entitled, and is as proper as any to kindle and excite such in us: gracious desires are here strong and fervent; gracious hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, are here struggling, but the pleasing passion comes off a conqueror. Or we may take it for a conflict between sense and faith, sense objecting and faith answering. I. Faith begins with… Read the whole commentary →