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My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
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The Enemy's Sharpest Weapon
Commentators agree that the taunt "Where is thy God?" is the most painful part of the psalmist's suffering. It's described as a "stinging question" and a "piercing shaft" (Spurgeon, Calvin). This attack isn't just about circumstances; it's a direct assault on the believer's faith, designed to make them feel utterly abandoned by the God they trust.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My tears have been my meat - The word translated 'tears' in this place is in the singular number and literally means weeping. (). T…
19th Century
Anglican
My tears. — Compare Psalms 80:5; Psalms 102:9; and Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.75, “ Cura dolorque animi lacrimaeque alimenta fu…
Baptist
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
That is a very stinging question, a…
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16th Century
Protestant
My tears have been my bread. Here the Psalmist mentions another sharp, piercing shaft with which the wicked and malevolent grievously woun…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My tears have been my meat day and night That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, [Reference 1…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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…
