“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.”
The prayer for restoration: "Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil." The petition for gladness proportional to past suffering establishes a principle of recompense. The years of evil should be matched by years of blessing.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:15
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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