John Gill Commentary Psalms 90:14

"Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days." — Psalms 90:14 (ASV)

O satisfy us early with your mercy
Or "grace" ^F7 ; the means of grace, the God of all grace, and communion with him, Christ and his grace; things without which, souls hungry and thirsty, in a spiritual sense, cannot be satisfied; these will satisfy them, and nothing else; namely, the discoveries of the love of God, his pardoning grace and mercy, Christ and his righteousness, and the fulness of grace in him; see (Psalms 63:3–5) (103:2-5) , this grace and mercy they desire to be satisfied and filled with betimes, early, seasonably, as soon as could be, or it was fitting it should: it may be rendered "in the morning" ^F8 , which some understand literally of the beginning of the day, and so lay a foundation for joy the whole day following: some interpret it of the morning of the resurrection; with which compare (Psalms 49:14) and (Psalms 17:15) others of the day of redemption and salvation, as Kimchi and Jarchi: it may well enough be applied to the morning of the Gospel dispensation; and Christ himself, who is "the mercy promised" unto the fathers, may be meant; "whose coming was prepared as the morning"; and satisfied such as were hungry and thirsty, weary and faint, with looking for it, (Hosea 6:3) (Jeremiah 31:14)

The Targum is, ``satisfy us with your goodness in the world, which is like to the morning;'' and Arama interprets it of the time of the resurrection of the dead.

that we may rejoice and be glad all our days ;
the love, grace, and mercy of God, his presence, and communion with him, the coming of Christ, and the blessings of grace by him, lay a solid foundation for lasting joy in the Lord's people, who have reason always to rejoice in him; and their joy is such that no man can take from them, (Philippians 4:4) (John 16:22) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: (Kdox) "gratia tua", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
• F8: (rqbb) "matutino Montanus", Cocceius; so Ainsworth.