translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The psalmist recalls how he once worshiped in the Lord’s temple, but laments that he is now oppressed by enemies in a foreign land. Some medieval Hebrew mss combine Psalms 42 and 43 into a single psalm.


text: For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul , or inner self.


text: The psalmist believes that the Lord has not abandoned him, but continues to extend his loyal love . To this point in the psalm, the author has used the name “God,” but now, as he mentions the divine characteristic of loyal love, he switches to the more personal divine name Yahweh (rendered in the translation as “the Lord ”).


text: Walk around mourning . See Ps 38:6 for a similar idea.


text: “Where is your God?” The enemies ask this same question in v. 3 .