Psalms 42:9

"The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life."

Key Reflection

This verse contrasts day and night, symbolizing times of prosperity and adversity. During daylight (prosperous times), the LORD's loving-kindness is experienced and acknowledged; at night (times of struggle), faith persists through prayer and song to God, sustaining hope even in hardship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will say unto God my rock -I will appeal to God as my defense, my helper, my Saviour. On the word rock, as applied to God, see the notes atPsalms 18:2. Why hast thou forgotten me? -See the notes atPsalms 22:1. He had seemed to forget and forsake him, for He did not come to interpose and save him. This is a part of the prayer which he saysPsalms 42:8that he would use. Why go I mourning? -On the meaning of the word used here -קדרqodēr- seePsalms 35:14, note;Psalms 38:6, note. The idea is that of being bowed down, made sad, deeply afflicted, as one forsaken. Because of the oppression of the enemy -In the oppression of the enemy; that is, during its continuance, or on account of it.

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