“The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.”
The prayer for mercy: "How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?" The lament's central question asks about the duration of God's apparent abandonment. The hiding of God's face becomes the fundamental problem.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:45
1. Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him. He Himself is meant, in my belief, by “the understanding of Æthan the Israelite:” which has given this Psalm its title. You see then, who is meant by Æthan: but the meaning of the word is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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