For&c. This is the Psalmist's reason for reminding God of the frailty of human life. We Israel have been consumed through thine anger, and through thy wrath have we been dismayed. He speaks of it not as a general truth but as an actual experience. Dismayedis a word specially used of the consternation inspired by Divine judgements. Cp. Psalms 6:2-3; Psalms 48:5; and the cognate subst. terror, Leviticus 26:16.

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