Lord, why castest thou off my soul? - Why do you forsake or abandon me? Why is it that you do not interpose, since you have all pow…

You cast off. —The idea is that of throwing away something with loathing. .

Note again the earnestness of the psalmist's pleadings. We have had many of them already; each verse has, I think, had at least two pleadings in it…

Why, O Jehovah! will you reject my soul? These lamentations at first sight would seem to indicate a state of mind in which sorrow without …

Lord, why do you cast off my soul ?
&c.] Here begins his prayer, which he determined to present early in the morning, and cons…

Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favors in comfort, nor re…