Psalm 42:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

My tears are my food day and night. People ask me all day long, "Where is your God?"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

ASV:

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

BBE:

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

DBY:

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

ERV:

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

JPS:

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say unto me all the day: 'Where is Thy God?'

WBS:

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

WEB:

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

YLT:

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Psalm 42:3 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 79:10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let there be known among the nations in our sight, Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

Psalm 80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping

Psalm 115:2 Why should the nations say, "Where, now, is their God?"

Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the LORD'S ministers, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not make Your inheritance a reproach, A byword among the nations. Why should they among the peoples say, 'Where is their God?'"

Micah 7:10 Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look on her; At that time she will be trampled down Like mire of the streets. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

42:3 {c} My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
(c) As others take pleasure in eating and drinking, so he was altogether given to weeping.

MHC:

42:1-5 The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the hypocrite. Nothing is more grievous to a gracious soul, than what is intended to shake its confidence in the Lord. It was not the remembrance of the pleasures of his court that afflicted David; but the remembrance of the free access he formerly had to God's house, and his pleasure in attending there. Those that commune much with their own hearts, will often have to chide them. See the cure of sorrow. 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. And what is our support under present woes but this, that we shall have comfort in Him. We have great cause to mourn for sin; but being cast down springs from unbelief and a rebellious will; we should therefore strive and pray against it.

CONC:

Bread Continually Meat Saying Tear Tears

Bread Continually Food Meat Night Tear Tears

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