Psalms 89:46
How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
In Context
45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
47Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Cross References
Psalms 10:1Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 78:63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
Psalms 85:5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
Psalms 90:13Relent, LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 89:39-52
Complaints and Expostulations; David's Expostulation with God. 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43… Read the whole commentary →