Psalms 42:10

"I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”"

Key Reflection

This verse expresses deep anguish and questioning of God's presence during hardship. The psalmist appeals to God as his rock, seeking understanding for why he feels forsaken amid opposition, reflecting a common human struggle with faith in times of personal trial.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

As with a sword in my bones -Margin, killing. The treatment which I receive in their reproaches is like death. The word rendered “sword” -רצחretsach- means properly killing, slaying, breaking in pieces, crushing. It occurs only here and inEzekiel 21:22, where it is rendered slaughter. The Septuagint renders it, “In the bruising of my bones they reproach me.” The Vulgate, “While they break my bones they reproach me.” Luther, “It is as death in my bones, that my enemies reproach me.” The idea in the Hebrew is, that their reproaches were like breaking or crushing his very bones. The idea of the “sword” is not in the original.

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