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Psa. 42:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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<<To the chief Musician, γMaschil, for the sons of Korah.>> As the hart ζpanteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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or, A Psalm giving instruction to the sons, &c.

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brayeth.

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God,

Hart,

Korah,

Maschil,

Music; Musicians; Musical Instruments,

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-4: David's zeal to serve God in the temple.

5-11: He encourages his soul to trust in God.

A.M. 2983.

B.C. 1021.

(Title.){Maschil,} or a Psalm giving instruction, of the sons, etc. Or, "An instructive Psalm," or didactic ode, "for the sons of Korah."

It is generally supposed to have been written by David when driven from Jerusalem and beyond Jordan, by Absalom's rebellion.the sons.

Psa. 44:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.>> We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. (Psa. 44:1)

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Psa. 45:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.>> My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. (Psa. 45:1)

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Psa. 46:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.>> God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. (Psa. 46:1)

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Psa. 47:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. (Psa. 47:1)

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Psa. 48:1• ¹<<A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. (Psa. 48:1)

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Psa. 49:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: (Psa. 49:1)

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Psa. 84:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! (Psa. 84:1)

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Psa. 85:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. (Psa. 85:1)

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Psa. 85• (Psa. 85)

:*titles;

Num. 16:1,32• ¹Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
³²And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. (Num. 16:1,32)

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Num. 26:11• ¹¹Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not. (Num. 26:11)

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1 Chron. 6:33‑37• ³³And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
³⁴The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
³⁵The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
³⁶The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
³⁷The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, (1 Chron. 6:33‑37)

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1 Chron. 25:1‑5• ¹Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
²Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
³Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
⁴Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
⁵All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. (1 Chron. 25:1‑5)

panteth.

Heb. brayeth.

so panteth.

Psa. 63:1‑2• ¹<<A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.>> O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
²To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. (Psa. 63:1‑2)

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Psa. 84:2• ²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. (Psa. 84:2)

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Psa. 143:6‑7• ⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 143:6‑7)

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Isa. 26:8‑9• ⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. (Isa. 26:8‑9)

• Book 2, Series 1. The Great Tribulation (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)

• Whatever the distresses and sorrows of the first forty-one psalms, the heart of the psalmist always looked freely to Jehovah in them, was in fuller relationship with Him and the enjoyment of public services, in which His name was celebrated. Here he is cast out. he remembers these things. He is an outcast and can only, in the secret of his soul and in wilderness circumstances, look to the nature and essence of what God is….it is the position God sets His people in when covenant relationship is broken—as it will be, and is—with Israel....It is a searching process that we may be cast in naked dependence on grace. It is practically as to principle Rom. 7. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 42-44” by J.N. Darby)

• When a soul has believed in forgiveness, owning, no doubt, its sinfulness, but not really searched out, or the entirely sinful nature of the flesh discovered, the first joy may be lost, and the soul only know enough of God to feel the dreadfulness of not having the light of His countenance; but this gives the earnest desire to enjoy it. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 42-44” by J.N. Darby)

• He had lost the joy of the multitude, but he now panted after God Himself. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 42-44” by J.N. Darby)

• The great theme of the psalm is the faith of the soul in God Himself. Cast out of the land, and cut off from the blessings of the sanctuary, the soul clings to God as its only resource, when all else is gone. (“Psalms 42” by H. Smith)

• As the water brooks revive the panting hart, so the soul looks to God as the life-giving One, to revive his soul. (“Psalms 42” by H. Smith)

• In this book (Ps. 42-72) the circumstances the godly remnant find themselves in are far more trying than that of the first book. Antichrist will have risen in the land and be received by the apostate mass of Jews as their (false) Messiah (Jn. 5:43, Dan. 11:36-39). More than this, Antichrist will have set up an idolatrous image, the abomination of desolation (Mt. 24:15, Rev. 13:14-15), in the temple and will be forcing all in the land to worship it. When the godly remnant, for conscience sake, refuse to worship the image, the bitter hatred of the Beast and Antichrist will be drawn out after them. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

• The key to the second book is Isa. 66:5. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

• The godly Jewish remnant cast out by their apostate brethren (Isa. 66:5) are described as a beleaguered deer far from its native waterbrooks panting for water. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To the chief Musician. An instruction; ofa the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "for"; and so Ps. 44, etc.