Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 42 connects to 10 cross-references. A lament of the Korahites comparing the psalmist's soul-thirst for God to a deer panting for water. The psalmist mourns being taunted with the question 'Where is your God?' while exiled and distant from temple worship. The recurring refrain 'Hope …
Other Translations
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where <FI>is<Fi> thy God?'
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Cross References
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare …
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by …
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy …
He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for …