Psalms Chapter 89 verse 46 Holy Bible
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? `How long' shall thy wrath burn like fire?
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How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
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How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?
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How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
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The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
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How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
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Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 46-51. - The psalm ends with an appeal to God - "How long" is the present state of things to continue? How long is God's wrath to endure? Will he not remember how weak and futile, how short-lived and fleeting, the whole race of man is? Well he not bethink him of his old loving kindnesses to David, and of the promises made to him, and confirmed by oath? Will he not therefore remove their reproach from Israel, and especially from his anointed, on whom the disgrace chiefly falls? To these questions there can be but one answer. God will assuredly make his faithfulness known (see ver. 1). Verse 46. - How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself forever; (comp. Psalm 13:1; Psalm 74:10; Psalm 79:5). Shall thy wrath burn like fire? i.e. furiously, without cessation, till all be consumed.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(46) How long.--With this persistent cry of the Maccabaean age (see Psalm 74:10), the poet shows that faith is not extinct, though it has a sore struggle with despair.
