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Psalms 42:10

They make fun of me constantly; they continually ask, “Why does your god not help you?” [RHQ] And when they insult me like that, it is like wounds that I feel even in my bones.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9I say to God, who is like an overhanging rock under which I can hide [MET], “It seems that you have forgotten me. I <mourn/cry> constantly because my enemies act cruelly toward me” [RHQ].

11But I think, “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ] I will confidently expect God to help me, and I will praise him again, my God, the one who saves me.”

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Cross References

Psalms 42:3Every day and every night I cry; it is as though the only thing I have to drink is my tears; and while I do that, my enemies are continually asking me, “Why does your god not help you?”

Psalms 55:4I am terrified, and I am very much afraid that I will die.

Lamentations 5:20So why [RHQ] have you forgotten us? Why [RHQ] have you abandoned us for a very long time?

Micah 7:10Our enemies will also see that, and they will be disgraced because they ridiculed us, saying “Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, not helping you?” But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated; we will see them trampled like [SIM] mud in the streets.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:7-11

Complaints and Consolations. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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Study Psalms 42:10

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