Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
My tears have been my meat day and night,.... That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah,
1Sa 1:7,8; or while he was eating tears fell in plenty, and they were as common, day and night, as…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
My tears have been my meat - The word rendered tears in this place is in the singular number, and means literally weeping. Compare Psa 39:12. The word meat here means literally bread, and is used in…
Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase:…
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