Psalms 42:6

Within me, or rather, as in Psalms 42:4, upon me, stands emphatically at the beginning of the sentence. His own feelings overwhelm him, and therefore he must turn to God, whose goodness he can call to mind, remote though he is from the place where God's presence is specially manifested. He describes the place from which he speaks as the land of Jordan and the Hermons, probably the neighbourhood of Dan (Tell-el-Kadi) or Caesarea Philippi (Banias), where the Jordan rises from the roots of Hermon. The plural Hermonseither denotes the Hermon range in general or refers to the three peaks in which Mount Hermon culminates. The hill Mizaror mount Mizar was probably some hill in the immediate neighbourhood of which he was [23]; perhaps some point whence he could command a view of the hills beyond the Jordan, over which he would fain be travelling to Jerusalem. Its name the little mountainmay perhaps be meant to contrast its insignificance with the fame and splendour of God's holy mountain where he desires to be (Psalms 43:3; Psalms 48:2).

[23] Prof. G. A. Smith notes that there are in the same neighbourhood "two or three names with the same or kindred radicals," and suggests that they may be "a reminiscence of the name of a hill in this district." Hist. Geogr. of the Holy Land, P. 477.