Psalms 42:3

my meat Lit. my bread. Cp. Psalms 80:5; Psalms 102:4; Psalms 102:9. Tears take the place of his daily food. So Ovid, Metam. x. 75, "Cura dolorque animi lacrimaeque alimenta fuere."

continually Lit. all the day, and so in Psalms 42:10.

Where is thy God Cp. Psalms 79:10; Psalms 115:2; Joel 2:17; Micah 7:10. The bitterest ingredient in his cup of sorrow is the taunt of the heathen that his plight demonstrates the impotence or indifference of the God Whom he serves.