Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
All Commentaries on Psalms 89:47 Go To Psalms 89
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Remember what. Hebrew ani, "I. "As this seems odd, Houbigant substitutes, adni, "Lord. "(Berthier)
Substance is. That Christ will assume our nature, (St. Augustine, City of God xvii. 9, 11.) or "how long I shall live. "(Montanus)
Even the world "passes "like a shadow, 1 Corinthians vii. (Amama)
"Be mindful of me from the depth: else why hast thou in vain created the sons of men? "(St. Jerome) (Haydock)
In vain. To spend their days in misery? or rather, "are not all created subject to vanity? "If thou do not succour us, we shall presently perish, and who will glorify thy name on earth? (Psalm cxliii. 4.) (Calmet)
Will thy providence take no care of us? (Berthier)
If the Messias come not, we cannot be saved, and we shall appear to have been created in vain. (Menochius)
