Verse 24
24. In the midst of my days In the half of “my days” when my life is only half spent. This cutting short of life was regarded as a great calamity often a sign of judgment. As applied to the nation it was what Jeremiah had foretold to Judah, and Amos to Israel, that their “sun should go down at noon.” Jeremiah 15:9; Amos 8:9. Perowne says: “This deprecation of a short life springs not, in this instance, from a natural clinging to life, as in the case of Hezekiah, (Isaiah 38:10-11,) but from the intense desire to see God’s glory manifested in Israel’s restoration.”
Thy years are throughout all generations The consolation here drawn from the eternity of God is not in the abstract idea of his existence, but in the connecting idea of his covenant relation to his people. The generations of men perish, but the immutable word of God, like his own eternity, remains the same, and by that word Israel must be restored. See on Psalms 90:1; and compare Psalms 103:15-18; Isaiah 40:6-8
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