Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.
2. I will pour out before him my complaint;
My distress before him will I declare.
Aloud, lit. with my voice, not merely in silent prayer, but with cries which give relief to pent up feeling and express the intensity of distress. Cp. Psa 3:4; Psa 30:8; and for ‘cry,’ a word expressing the cry of need, anxiety, distress, cp. Psa 142:5; Psa 22:5; Psa 77:1; Psa 107:13; Psa 107:19.
poured out my complaint ] Cp. 102 title; Psa 42:4; Psa 62:8.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I poured out my complaint before him – literally, my meditation; that is, What so much occupied my thoughts at the time I expressed aloud. The word complaint does not express the idea. The meaning is, not that he complained of God or of man; but that his mind meditated on his condition. He was full of care and of anxiety; and he went and poured this out freely before God. The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, my prayer. See Psa 55:2, where the same Hebrew word is used.
I showed before him my trouble – I made mention of it. I spoke of it.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
I poured out; I did it fully, and fervently, and confidently.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
2. (Compare Ps62:8).
I poured out my complaintor,”a sad musing.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I poured out my complaint before him,…. Not a complaint of the Lord and of his providences, but of himself; of his sins, and particularly his unbelief; and also of them that persecuted and afflicted him; which he “poured” out from the abundance of his heart, and in the bitterness of his soul; denoting the fulness of his prayer, his freedom in it, the power and fervency of it, and which he left before the Lord, and submitted to his will; see Ps 102:1, title;
I showed before him my trouble; the present trouble he was in, being pursued and surrounded by Saul and his army; not as if the Lord was ignorant of it, and did not see and observe it, but to affect his own soul with it, to exercise grace under it, and ease his burdened and distressed mind; the best of men have their troubles both within and without, and the way to be rid of them is to carry them to the Lord.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(2) I poured out.See the same verb used in similar sense, Psa. 42:4; Psa. 62:8; and with the second clause comp. Psa. 107:6.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2. I poured out my complaint before him The idea of profuseness, unreservedness, is given I emptied out my complaint. Nothing was kept back. So, in the next line, I showed him my trouble. This was done “before him” literally, before his face. In the sacrificial coloring of these expressions, especially the emphatic , before his face, there is a drawing nigh to God answerable to the New Testament “coming boldly to the throne of grace,” a “drawing near” to the “holy of holies.” Heb 4:16; Heb 10:22. This earnest pouring out of complaint and prayer for mercy, before the face of God, takes also the Levitical idea of a “libation,” or “drink-offering,” poured freely upon the sacrifice of the altar, to give it flavour and acceptance. Lev 4:7, etc. See Isa 57:6
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Ver. 2. I poured out my complaint ] Heb. my mussitation.
I showed before him
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
poured out: Psa 42:4, Psa 62:8, Psa 102:1, *title 1Sa 1:15, 1Sa 1:16, Isa 26:16, Rom 8:26
I showed: Psa 18:4-6, Phi 4:6, Phi 4:7, Heb 5:7
Reciprocal: 2Ch 6:29 – know 2Ch 9:1 – communed Job 16:20 – poureth Job 21:4 – is my complaint Psa 42:5 – Why art thou cast down Psa 77:3 – spirit Psa 119:145 – cried Lam 2:19 – pour Heb 11:38 – wandered