Psalm 89:46

46 HERR, wie lange willst du dich so gar verbergen und deinen Grimm wie Feuer brennen lassen?

Psalm 89:46 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 89:46

How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever?
&c.] When God hides his face front his people, though it is but for a little while, it seems long, and a kind of an eternity to them; and so it seemed to the man Christ Jesus; and indeed what he endured, when his Father hid his face from him, was of the same kind with an eternal absence; see ( Psalms 13:1 ) ( 22:1 ) ,

shall thy wrath burn like fire?
it did so when Christ bore the sins of his people, and all the punishment due unto them; when his strength was dried up like a potsherd; when he, the antitype of the passover lamb roasted with fire, was sacrificed for us; all which is entirely consistent with God's everlasting and invariable love to him, as his own Son. (See Gill on Psalms 89:38).

Psalm 89:46 In-Context

44 Du zerstörst seine Reinigkeit und wirfst seinen Stuhl zu Boden.

45 Du verkürzest die Zeit seiner Jugend und bedeckest ihn mit Hohn. (Sela.)

46 HERR, wie lange willst du dich so gar verbergen und deinen Grimm wie Feuer brennen lassen?

47 Gedenke, wie kurz mein Leben ist. Warum willst du alle Menschen umsonst geschaffen haben?

48 Wo ist jemand, der da lebt und den Tod nicht sähe? der seine Seele errette aus des Todes Hand? (Sela.)