psalms 142:1 <Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.> I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

psalms 142:1 [Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer]. I Cry aloud with my voice to the LORD; I make supplication with my voice to the LORD.

Ps 142:1-7. Maschil--(See on Ps 32:1, title). When he was in the cave--either of Adullam (1Sa 22:1), or En-gedi (1Sa 24:3). This does not mean that the Psalm was composed in the cave, but that the precarious mode of life, of which his refuge in caves was a striking illustration, occasioned the complaint, which constitutes the first part of the Psalm and furnishes the reason for the prayer with which it concludes, and which, as the prominent characteristic, gives its name.

psalms 142:1 [Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer]. I Cry aloud with my voice to the LORD; I make supplication with my voice to the LORD.

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