Psalms 89:46

46 How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?

Psalms 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).

Psalms 89:46 In-Context

44 You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground.

45 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

46 How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?

47 Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.

48 What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah