Psalm 89:46
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It would be unwarrantable, therefore, to infer from Ethan's expostulation, that the saints who lived under the early kings were strangers to the hope of everlasting life. I am inclined to go further, and to point to this very complaint as affording a presumption that there was in their hearts an irrepressible sentiment of immortality. The bird that frets and wounds itself on the bars of its cage shows thereby that its proper home is the free air. When inveterate sensuality has succeeded in quenching in a man's heart the hope of a life beyond the grave, the dreary void which succeeds utters itself, not in solemn complaints like Ethan's, but in songs of forced mirth -- dismal Anacreontic songs: "Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die."
Verse 46. Shall thy wrath burn like fire? An element that hath no mercy. -- William Nicholson.
HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS
Verse 46. -- The hand of God is to be acknowledged.
Verse 46. Remember. The prayer of the dying thief, the troubled believer, the persecuted Christian.