Psalm 42:3 “My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all da…”

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

World English Bible

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

American Standard Version

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Geneva Bible 1599

My teares haue bin my meate day and night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?

Darby Translation

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Young's Literal Translation

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where [is] thy God?'

Bible in Basic English

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

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Cross references

“tears”

Psalm 80:5 Psalm 102:9 2 Samuel 16:12

Psalm 80:5 · BSB

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Psalm 102:9 · BSB

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

2 Samuel 16:12 · BSB

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

“while”

Psalm 79:10 Psalm 115:2 Psalm 42:10 Psalm 79:12 Psalm 3:2 Psalm 22:8

Psalm 79:10 · BSB

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Psalm 115:2 · BSB

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Psalm 42:10 · BSB

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 79:12 · BSB

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Psalm 3:2 · BSB

Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

Psalm 22:8 · BSB

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

Also

Joel 2:17 Micah 7:10

Joel 2:17 · BSB

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say…

Micah 7:10 · BSB

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

Read Psalm 42