"A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. By the bitter, but ofttimes wholesome food of tears. Commentary on Psalm 42:6-11 (Read Psalm 42:6-11) The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. And here we have started up, and have sent leaping over the plain another of Solomon's favourites. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. H. March. “Where is your God?”, a. I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me”: There is a pleasant contradiction in this line.

Apply the promise first to ourselves, and then plead it to God. At any rate, we who have been rescued as they were from going down into the pit, out of the mere good pleasure of Jehovah, can heartily join in this Psalm, and indeed in all the songs which show forth the praises of our God and the pantings of our hearts after him.

And the true lovers of God, they are always thinking upon him, sighing for him, panting after him, talking of him, and (if it were possible) would engrave the name of the Lord Jesus upon the breasts of all the men in the world. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. Who should imagine that from the posterity of him who said, "Ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Aaron," should have risen those whose sweet Psalms would be the heritage of the church of God to the end of time? No, instead of murmuring, he falls a panting, and that only after his God. W. M. Thomson. Psalm 42 – Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. By HENRY MARCH. i. What elegant creatures these gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound! Dear reader, dost thou know what this is, by personally having felt the same? The song from God will be a prayer, but not unto the God of his death, but to the God of my life. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. Folio. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. Verse 1 1.As the hart crieth for the fountains of water, etc The meaning of these two verses simply is, that David preferred to all the enjoyments, riches, pleasures, and honors of this world, the opportunity of access to the sanctuary, that in this way he might cherish and strengthen his faith and piety by the exercises prescribed in the Law. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage.

The musical reputation of the family continued in the time of Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 20:19 , where we have the peculiar doubly plural form (~yxrqhynb), "Sons of the Korahites." The next best thing to living in the light of the Lord's love is to be unhappy till we have it, and to pant hourly after it -- hourly, did I say? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy: The psalmist senses God sustaining him, but his battle is not over. They had been spared when their father and all his company, and all the children of his associates were swallowed up alive in their sin. of But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. It was because he regarded God as his Rock that he could pour out his soul before Him so honestly. By renewing our relish for the provisions of the Lord's house, which so soon and so often palls. My enemies reproach me, In the Saviour's name let us hope and pray. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls, all Your waves and billows have gone over me, “One wave of sorrow rolls on me, impelled by another. He is banished from the temple, and he thinks himself banished from his God, as it is in the following words, When shall I come and appear before God? To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the hypocrite. All rights reserved.

Whatever may have been their origin, it is clear the sons of Korah were a Levitical family of singers. On the eleventh verse of this Psalm there are the following works: --. A Practical Exposition of the Forty- second Psalm, in ten Sermons, in Choice and Practical Expositions on four select Psalms. We give Fry's translation of the first three verses. But it is a thing that God promised long ago by the prophet: "Then will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." (c) 2020 The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik – ewm@enduringword.com. At the same time he could honestly bring his feelings to God and ask, “Why have You forgotten me?”. Preserved, we know not why, by the distinguishing favour of God, it may be surmised that after their remarkable election to mercy, they became so filled with gratitude that they addicted themselves to sacred music in order that their spared lives might be consecrated to the glory of God. At length, is faith came off conqueror, by encouraging him to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay himself upon his God.

“The higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement.” (Maclaren). Psalms 27:4 . Numbers 16:1-50 . The taunt, “Where is your God?” continued from them. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. They were the spared ones of sovereign grace.

Who were the sons of Korah? Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Those that commune much with their own hearts, will often have to chide them. O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan. Here it is used with special strength, with great confidence that God will command His lovingkindness to be extended to the despairing one. Subject. It is called, Maschil, or an instructive ode; and full as it is of deep experimental expressions, it is eminently calculated to instruct those pilgrims whose road to heaven is of the same trying kind as David's was. We find his descendants existing as a powerful Levitical family in the time of David, at least, if they are to be identified, as is probable, with the Korahites mentioned in 1 Chronicles 12:6 , who, like our own warlike bishops of former times, seem to have known how to doff the priestly vestment for the soldier's armour, and whose hand could wield the sword as well as strike the harp.
Title. Folio. By making us to prize the means of grace more highly. 1651. The Korahites were a part of the band who acknowledged David as their chief, at Ziklag; warriors "whose faces," it is said, "were like the faces of lions, and who were (for speed) like gazelles upon the mountains." Twelve Sermons, in "A Cordial for a Fainting Soule." The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. b. When it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls, however painful our feelings. By THOMAS HORTON, D.D.

When the soul rests on itself, it sinks; if it catches hold on the power and promise of God, the head is kept above the billows. The hart panteth after the water brooks. Title. By driving us more directly from God. As the oppression of the enemy continued, so the psalmist would continue to speak to himself and challenge his own sense of discouragement. Although David is not mentioned as the author, this Psalm must be the offspring of his pen; it is so Davidic, it smells of the son of Jesse, it bears the marks of his style and experience in every letter.
But the Korahites were also celebrated musicians and singers; see 1 Chronicles 6:16-33 , where Heman, one of the three famous musicians of the time, is said to be a Korahite (compare 1 Chronicles 25:1-31 ). According to 1 Chronicles 9:17-19 , the Korahites were in David's time, keepers of the threshold of the tabernacle; and still earlier, in the time of Moses, watchmen at the entrance of the camp of the Levites. 1652. I have seen large flocks of these panting harts gather round the water brooks in the great deserts of Central Syria, so subdued by thirst that you could approach quite near them before they fled.

But if one trouble follow hard after another, if all seem to combine for our ruin, let us remember they are all appointed and overruled by the Lord. There is the constant oppression of the enemy. Comfort and Counsel for Dejected Souls. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. 8vo. "Sons of Korah." Like the parched traveller in the wilderness, whose skin bottle is empty, and who finds the wells dry, he must drink or die -- he must have his God or faint.

A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Verse 1. Let us learn to check all unbelieving doubts and fears. We may learn from this verse that the eagerness of our desires may be pleaded with God, and the more so, because there are special promises for the importunate and fervent.

Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. It is probable that David's flight from Absalom may have been the occasion for composing this Maschil. But if one trouble follow hard after another, if all seem to combine for our ruin, let us remember they are all appointed and overruled by the Lord. i. Verse 1-3. William S. Plumer. "Sons of Korah." Wherewith can it be satisfied? Proud member And if he commands the blessing, who shall hinder its reception?” (March, cited in Spurgeon). If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. “It is an important dialogue between the two aspects of the believer, who is at once a man of convictions and a creature of change.” (Kidner), ii. Korah, who perished, was a Levite. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Why are you cast down, O my soul? An Overview of Psalm 42 The way I would like to take us into Psalm 42 is to give an overview, and then show six things that this godly man does in his spiritual depression — six things that I think are meant to shape how we deal with our own seasons of darkness. Why are you cast down, O my soul?

How was holy David taken with being in the house of God at Jerusalem! My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? See the cure of sorrow. “The deep of the Holy Spirit’s intercession calls to the deep of the Church’s prayer.” (Meyer). Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. To the Chief Musician. In Numbers 26:11 we read: "Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not." California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. b. And I think, I hear the willing people of God's power, merrily calling one to another in the words of Micah 4:2 , "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

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