“Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?”
The final plea: "Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol?" The rhetorical questions acknowledge universal mortality. The plea becomes that if death is inevitable, at least God should grant honor and blessing before death.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:47
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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