Psalms 89:46

Bible

Bible Versions

NIV

Psalms

Psalms 89

Psalms 89:46

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

Read Chapter Compare

PREVIOUS Psalms 89:45 NEXT Psalms 89:47

Psalms 89:46 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

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

NLT

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

MSG

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

CSB

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).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible