Psalms 42:1
To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. As the harte brayeth for the riuers of water, so panteth my soule after thee, O God.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 6:24Also the sonnes of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.
1 Chronicles 6:22The sonnes of Kohath, Aminadab his sonne, Korah his sonne, Assir his sonne,
1 Chronicles 25:1So Dauid and the captaines of the armie separated for the ministerie the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun, who should sing prophesies with harpes, with violes, and with cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the men for the office of their ministerie, to wit,
Psalms 45:1To him that excelleth on Shoshannim a song of love to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. Mine heart will vtter forth a good matter: I wil intreat in my workes of the King: my tongue is as the pen of a swift writer.
Psalms 47:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. All people clap your hands: sing loude vnto God with a ioyfull voyce.
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 →