Psalms 89:45

“The days of his youth hast thou shortened, etc.] His days of joy and pleasure; such as days of youth are, in opposition to the days of old age, which are evil, (<211109>Ecclesiastes 11:9 12:1), these were shortened when his sorrows and sufferings came on, and God hid his face from him; and indeed he was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief all his days: the Vulgate Latin version renders it, “the days of his time”; and the Arabic version “the days of his years”; for he did not live out half the time of man’s age, which is threescore years and ten, (<199010>Psalm 90:10), he dying at the age of thirty three or four; but, notwithstanding this, he lives again, and lives for evermore; he…”

“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 out these, and prolonging them into advancing years, he had by calamities, disappointments, reverses, and troubles, as it were, abridged them. No such youthful vigor, no such youthful hope now remained. The feelings of age - the cutting off from the world - had come suddenly upon him, even before he had reached the season when this might be expected to occur. Though at a time of life and in circumstances when he might have hoped for a longer continuance of that youthful vigor, he had suddenly…”

“Youth - The youthful and flourishing estate of David's kingdom was very short, and reached not beyond his next successor. Psalms 89:47”

“The: Psa 89:28, Psa 89:29; Ch2 10:19; Isa 63:18 thou: Psa 44:15, Psa 109:29; Mic 7:10 Psalms 89:46”