The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
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Gill's Exposition
How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever?.... When God hides his face front his people, though it is but for a little while, it seems long, and a kind of an eternity to them; and so it seemed…
Barnes' Notes
The days of his youth hast thou shortened - This does not mean that he had shortened his life, but that he had abbreviated the period of his vigor, his hope, and his prosperity; instead of lengthening…
In these verses we have,
I. A very melancholy complaint of the present deplorable state of David's family, which the psalmist thinks hard to be reconciled to the covenant God made with David. "Thou…
Cambridge Bible
He is prematurely old. Cp. Psa 102:23. The words might be figuratively applied to the nation (Hos 7:9), or to the kingdom, prematurely brought to an end: but it is more natural to regard them as…
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