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).