Psalms 89:46

46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Psalms 89:46 in Other Translations

46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

46 O LORD, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

46 How long do we put up with this, God? Are you gone for good? Will you hold this grudge forever?

46 How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your anger keep burning like fire?

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 put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

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

46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

47 Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

48 Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 79:5