This verse explains the last. The affliction under which the psalmist suffers is evidence that God is visiting for sin.
He hath made... — See Lamentations 3:6; and comp. Psalms 88:5-6.
Long dead. — Literally, either dead of old, or dead for ever, according as we take ‘ôlam of past or future time. LXX., νεκροὺς αἰῶνος; Vulg., mortuos sæculi.