Psalms 42:1
A Psalm of David. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: 1 Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 6:24And the sons of Korah, Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph, these are the generations of Korah.
Numbers 16:32And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Korah, and their cattle.
1 Chronicles 6:22the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
1 Chronicles 25:1And King David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.
Psalms 45:1For the end, for the sons of Korah; a Psalm concerning secret things. 1
Psalms 47:1A Psalm of praise for the sons of Korah on the second day of the week. 1
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 →