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How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
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A Prayer of Wrestling Faith
Commentators like John Calvin and Charles Ellicott explain that this desperate question, "How long, O Lord?", is not a sign of failing faith but of faith actively wrestling with despair. By turning to God in prayer, even with a complaint, the psalmist shows an underlying trust in God's promises. This teaches that it is an act of faith to bring our rawest emotions and hardest questions to God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How long, Lord? - How long is this to continue? Can it be that this is to continue always? Is there to be no change for the better?…
19th Century
Anglican
How long. —With this persistent cry of the Maccabean age (), the poet shows that faith is not extinct, though it has a sore strugg…
Baptist
That was the wisest thing for the psalmist to do, and it is our best course also; in the darkest days of the most sinful age, we can always resort …
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16th Century
Protestant
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? After pouring out his complaints regarding the sad and calamitous condition of the C…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How long, Lord, will you hide yourself? for ever? &c.] When God hides his face front his people, though it is but fo…
Sometimes it is not easy to reconcile God's providences with His promises, yet we are sure that God's works fulfill His word. When the great Anoint…
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