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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 42:10	Strong Concordance	As with a sword [07524] in my bones [06106], mine enemies [06887] reproach [02778] me; while they say [0559] daily [03117] unto me, Where is thy God [0430]?
	King James	As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
As with a sword in my bones - Margin, killing. The treatment which I receive in their reproaches is like death. The word rendered "sword" - רצח retsach - means properly killing, slaying, breaking in pieces, crushing. It occurs only here and in Eze 21:22, where it is rendered slaughter. The Septuagint renders it, "In the bruising of my bones they reproach me." The Vulgate, "While they break my bones they reproach me." Luther, "It is as death in my bones, that my enemies reproach me." The idea in the Hebrew is, that their reproaches were like breaking or crushing his very bones. The idea of the "sword" is not in the original. Mine enemies reproach me - That is, as one forsaken of God, and as suffering justly under his displeasure. Their argument was, that if he was truly the friend of God, he would not leave him thus; that the fact of his being thus abandoned proved that he was not a friend of God. While they say daily unto me - They say this constantly. I am compelled to hear it every day. Where is thy God? - See the notes at Psa 42:3.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

As with a sword in my bones - Margin, killing. The treatment which I receive in their reproaches is like death. The word rendered "sword" - רצח retsach - means properly killing, slaying, breaking in pieces, crushing. It occurs only here and in Eze 21:22, where it is rendered slaughter. The Septuagint renders it, "In the bruising of my bones they reproach me." The Vulgate, "While they break my bones they reproach me." Luther, "It is as death in my bones, that my enemies reproach me." The idea in the Hebrew is, that their reproaches were like breaking or crushing his very bones. The idea of the "sword" is not in the original.

Mine enemies reproach me - That is, as one forsaken of God, and as suffering justly under his displeasure. Their argument was, that if he was truly the friend of God, he would not leave him thus; that the fact of his being thus abandoned proved that he was not a friend of God.

While they say daily unto me - They say this constantly. I am compelled to hear it every day.

Where is thy God? - See the notes at Psa 42:3.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
As - As a sword, which cutteth the very bones, so painful are their reproaches.

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³ My tears [01832] have been my meat [03899] day [03119] and night [03915], while they continually [03117] say [0559] unto me, Where is thy God [0430]?

²² At his right hand [03225] was the divination [07081] for Jerusalem [03389], to appoint [07760] captains [03733], to open [06605] the mouth [06310] in the slaughter [07524], to lift up [07311] the voice [06963] with shouting [08643], to appoint [07760] battering rams [03733] against the gates [08179], to cast [08210] a mount [05550], and to build [01129] a fort [01785].