Shortened Days of Youth - Psalms 89:45

In Psalms eighty nine Ethan the Psalmist said of Jehovah God, “You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle. You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground”, and in chapter eighty nine and verse forty-five of Psalms Ethan said to Jehovah God, “the days of his youth have you shortened” where we read,

The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.

The verse begins, “The days of his youth have you shortened:” Ethan began with the words, “the days” or “the divisions of time or periods” “of his youth” which means “belonging to his, David's, adolescence and youthful vigor” “have you shortened” or “you, Jehovah God, have vexed, grieved and made short”. Ethan said Jehovah God caused the periods of time when David was young to be vexed and made brief.

The verse continues, “you have covered him with shame. Selah.” Ethan added the words, “you have covered him” or “you, Jehovah God, have enwrapped, enveloped, veiled and arrayed him, David” “with shame” which means “by the use of humiliation, embarrassment, indignity and chagrin”. “Selah” or “lift up, exalt and pause to meditate upon it”. Ethan said Jehovah God enveloped and arrayed David with humiliation and embarrassment.

When we consider the words in this verse, we see how Ethan said Jehovah God made David's adolescence to be brief, and He caused him humiliation and embarrassment. No doubt Ethan believed Jehovah God was against David. He was not correct as Jehovah God loved David and cared from him from his birth. God loved David, and He loves us. He sent His Son Jesus into the world to be crucified on the cross for the sins of everyone, and when we believe and trust in Him as our personal “Savior and Lord”, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and accompany us even when our feelings and emotions are telling us the opposite. This idea is worthy of us pausing to meditate upon it to be reassured that God is for us and not against us.

Next time Ethan the Psalmist asks to Jehovah God, “How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself for ever?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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