Book Two (Psalms 42-72). The Book of Psalms divides up into five sections, of which this is the second, each of which ends with a special ‘blessing, which are as follows: · Book 1. Psalms 1-41, which ends with ‘blessed be YHWH the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting, Amen and Amen.' ·... [ Continue Reading ]
‘As the hind pants after the water brooks, So pants my soul after you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: When shall I come and see the face of God?' He commences by describing the great longing that he has to enjoy the presence of God, and compares it with the gentle, timorous... [ Continue Reading ]
‘My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, Where is your God?' Indeed so powerful are his feelings that he describes himself as weeping day and night so as to satisfy his emotional state, because his enemies taunt him continually about the fact that God does not... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope you in God, For I will yet praise him For the help of his countenance. And so he rebukes himself and speaks to his inner soul, and asks it why it is disquieted within him. He reminds himself that because he serves the... [ Continue Reading ]
‘O my God, my soul is cast down within me, Therefore do I remember you from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the noise of your downpourings, All your waves and your billows are gone over me. His disquietude is not, however, totally removed by h... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Yet in the daytime YHWH used to command his covenant love, And in the night his song was with me, Even a prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? With crushing in my bones, My adversaries r... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope you in God, For I will yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, And my God. So once again he calls on his soul, and demands to know why it should be so disquieted within him. Rather should he hope in God, f... [ Continue Reading ]