Psalm 42:1-11 ICB
A deer thirsts for a stream of water. In the same way, I thirst for you, God.2 I thirst for the living God. When can I go to meet with him? 3 Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, “Where is your God?”
4 When I remember these things, I speak with a broken heart. I used to walk with the crowd. I led the happy crowd to God’s Temple, with songs of praise. 5 Why am I so sad? Why am I so upset? I should put my hope in God. I should keep praising him, My Savior and my God. I am very sad.
So I remember you while I am in the land where the Jordan River begins.
I will remember you while I am near the Hermon mountains and on the mountain of Mizar. 7 Troubles have come again and again. They sound like waterfalls.
Your waves are crashing all around me.
8 The Lord shows his true love every day. At night I have a song,
and I pray to my living God 9 I say to God, my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me, Why am I sad and troubled by my enemies?”
10 My enemies’ insults make me feel as if my bones were broken.
They are always saying, “Where is your God? 11 Why am I so sad? Why am I so upset? I should put my hope in God. I should keep praising him, my Savior and my God.
Where is your God?
Why am I so sad?
Why am I so upset?
I am very sad.
Why have you forgotten me?
Why am I sad and troubled by my enemies?
He Remembers his PAST DEVOTION.
Psalm 42:4
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.
A. He Remembers the PLACE he faithfully attended.
Psalm 42:4
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.
Psalms 122:1
“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.”
B) He Remembers the PEOPLE worshiped with.
Psalm 42:4
“I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God.”
C. He Remembers the PRAISE he offered.
Psalm 42:4c
…with the voice of joy and praise.
He Describes his PRESENT DISCOURAGEMENT
A How Depressed He Was
Psalm 42:5
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul?”
Psalm 42:6
“O my God, my soul is cast down within me.”
Psalm 42:11
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul.”
Psalm 43:3
“My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”
B How Disturbed He Was
Psalm 42:5b &11b
…O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me?”
Psalm 42:5
“Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.”
Psalm 42:10
“As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?”
He expected FUTURE DELIVERANCE.
Psalm 42:5
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.
A His Prayer for God’s Help
Psalm 42:8
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
B He Praised God for his Help.
Psalm 42:5b
“…hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.”
Psalms 116:6
“I was brought low, and he helped me.”