--- title: "Psalms 42 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Psalms 42 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/psalms/42" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/42)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/42)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/42) Audio 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.** 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where *is* thy God? 4 When I remember these *things*, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and *why* art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him *for* the help of his countenance.*** 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 oppression of the enemy? 10 *As* with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where *is* thy God?* 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, *who is* the health of my countenance, and my God. [Psalms 41](/study/psalms/41) [Psalms 43](/study/psalms/43) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 42:1](/kjv/psalms/42/1) « To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. » As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. **Maschil, for the sons of Korah** ] Korah and his compilers were swallowed up quick by the earth in the wilderness for their gainsaying, [Numbers 16:1-50](/kjv/numbers/16/1-50) , but some of his sons, disliking his practice, escaped, and of them came Heman (the nephew of Samuel), a chief singer, [1 Chronicles 6:23](/kjv/1-chronicles/6/23) . Now, to him and his brethren was this and some other of David’s psalms committed, both to be kept as a treasure, and to be sung in the sanctuary, for comfort and instruction under affliction, according to the signification of the word Maschil; whereof see [Psalms 32:1](/kjv/psalms/32/1) , title, παθηματα γαρ μαθηματα . *Nocumenta documenta.* **** Ver. 1. **As the hart panteth after the water brooks** ] Heb. As the hind. Greek, η ελαφος , for in females the passions are stronger, saith an interpreter here, *quicquid volunt, valde volunt.* This creature is naturally hot and dry, about autumn especially (as Aristotle testifieth), but when hunted extremely thirsty. Chrysostom and Basil say, that she eateth serpents, and so is further inflamed by their poison. Now, as the hunted and heated hind *glocitat,* breatheth and brayeth after the water brooks, **** **So panteth my soul after thee, O God** ] He saith not, after my former dignity and greatness, before Absalom disturbed me, and drove me out (though he could not but be sensible of such a loss; we know what miserable moans Cicero made when sent into banishment; how impatient Cato and many others were in like case, so that they became their own deathsmen), but after thee, Lord, and the enjoyment of thy public ordinances; from which I am now, alas, hunted and hindered. *Amo te Domine plus quam mea, meos, me* (Bern.). 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