“Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.”
The prayer for compassion: "Turn back, O LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!" The plea for God to turn from wrath toward compassion becomes urgent. The question "how long?" expresses that the period of wrath has extended long enough.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:13
1. This Psalm is entitled, “The prayer of Moses the man of God,” through whom, His man, God gave the law to His people, through whom He freed them from the house of slavery, and led them forty years through the wilderness. Moses was therefore the Minister of the Old, and the Prophet of the New Testament. For “all these things,” says the Apostle, “happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world come.” 1 Corinthians…
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