“O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
The request for steadfast love: "Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." The petition for hesed to meet the people in the morning (the new day, a new beginning) becomes the condition for renewed joy. The satisfaction of divine love counteracts the emptiness of mortality.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:14
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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