As the hart panteth after the water-brooks - Margin, brayeth. The word rendered "hart" – איל 'ayâl – commonly means a stag…

As the hart panteth. — “I have seen large flocks of these panting stags gather round the water-brooks in the great desert…

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Hunted, hot, weary, thirsty! It must drink or die…

As the hart cries for the fountains of water, etc. The meaning of these two verses simply is that David preferred, above all the enjoyment…

As the hart panteth after the water brooks
Either through a natural thirst that creature is said to have; or through…

The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good and set his heart upon Him accordingly; casting anchor in this way at first, he rides out the sto…

1. This is the fifth group of ten in the first fifty psalms; it is ordered to implore help against present evils.

   This is done throug…