The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 42:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I will say unto God my Rock (comp. Psalms 18:1; Psalms 31:3). Why hast thou forgotten me? (see the comment on Psalms 13:1). God does not forget even when he most seems to forget (comp. Psalms 9:12; Psalms 37:28).

As the event showed, he had not now forgotten David (see 2 Samuel 19:9-40). Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Why am. I allowed to remain so long an exile, sorrowing and oppressed (comp.

Psalms 43:2)? Even to repentant sinners God's judgments are apt to seem too severe, too much prolonged, too grievous.

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