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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 89:45
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 has length of days for ever and ever, (<192104>Psalm 21:4 <660118> Revelation 1:18), though his days were in some sense shortened, yet in another sense they are and will be prolonged, even his own, and those of his spiritual seed, according to the promise of God, (<235310>Isaiah 53:10), thou hast covered him with shame; (see <196907>Psalm 69:7), when his face was covered with shame and spitting, from which he hid it not, (<230106>Isaiah 1:6), but now he is crowned with glory and honour; wherefore all these complaints, though true, are no objections to what is before said and swore to. Selah. (See Gill on “<190302>Psalm 3:2”).
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