Psalm 42:3 (WEB)
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Catechism · 1
“God, however, is the "living God"” — Catechism footnote: Josh 3:10; Ps 42:3; etc.
Fathers and councils · 10
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Who will not say, “My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God?” [Ps 42:3] With reason then did the Apostle seek “to die and to be with Christ.”” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Whence the soul, whose wandering has been made far away, may understand, if now she thirsts for Thee, if now her tears have become bread to her, while it is daily said unto her “Where is thy God?” if she now seeketh of Thee one thing, and desireth that she may dwell in Thy house all the days of her life.” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 2, 3, 10.
Read the whole comment“What a light of beauty will that be when “we shall see Him as He is,” and those tears be passed away which “have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 3.
Read the whole comment““My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is thy God?” (ver. 3).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““He was awakened, then, like one sleeping, like a mighty man drunken with wine.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Let us pour out our soul over us, let us confess in tears, let us groan in confession, let us sigh in misery.” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“Are not these the utterances of a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem: “My tears have been my meat day and night;” and “Every night shall I make my bed to swim; with my tears shall I water my couch;” and “My groaning is not hid from Thee;” and “My sorrow was renewed?”” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 3.
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Jerome
“Once she ate ashes like bread and mingled her drink with weeping; saying “my tears have been my meat day and night;” but now for all time she eats the bread of angels and sings: “O taste and see that the Lord is good;” and “my heart is overflowing with a goodly matter; I…” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 3.
Read the whole comment“My tears have been my meat day and night,” and in another place, “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 weary land where no water is.” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 1–3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“The hart desires the fountain of these waters, not thirsting for the poison of serpents.” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. [xli.] 3.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 9:14–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.15.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in Confessions XII.11.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.15.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in Catechism §2112.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.17.