For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Ver. 7. For we are consumed by thine anger] Justly conceived for our sins, Psalms 90:8. This is a cause of death that philosophy discovereth not, as being blind, and not able to see far off, and therefore cannot prescribe any sufficient remedy against the tear of death, such as is here set down, Psalms 90:12, but such as made Cicero complain, that the disease was too hard for the medicine, and such as left men either doubtful (Socrates, for instance) or desperate, and devoid of sense, as Petronius in Tacitus, Qui in ipsis atriis morris delicias quaesivit, solaced himself with singing such light sonnets as this;
Vivamus men Lesbia atque amemus,
Rumoresque senum severiorum
Onmes unius aestimemus assis.
And by thy wrath are we troubled ] Consternati sumus, Death stings us and sticks us; the motion and mention of it is terrible to us, through sense of sin and fear of wrath, Hebrews 2:15. Symmachus et Aquila transtulerant acceleravimus.