Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 90:6
The whole space of man's life is compared to one day, and his prosperity is confined to a part of that day, and ended in the close of it.
The whole space of man's life is compared to one day, and his prosperity is confined to a part of that day, and ended in the close of it.
IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH - This does not mean that it grows with any special vigor or rapidity in the morning, as if that were illustrative of the rapid growth of the young; but merely that, in f...
IV. THE NUMBERS SECTION: BOOK FOUR: PSALM 90-106 The Ninetieth Psalm begins the fourth book of Psalms, corresponding in different ways with the book of Numbers. It opens with the only Psalm written by...
BOOK IV. PSS. XC.- CVI. XC. Man's Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1. The nothingness of man's life, the eternity of God's life. Psalms 90:7. It is the sinfulness of man w...
The Psalmist's confession that God is Israel's refuge; that He alone is the Eternal; that He is the sovereign Disposer of human life....
_it is cut down_ Or, _it fadeth_. Cp. Psalms 37:2....
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FOURTH[264] [264] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 90 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Prayer Against the Dominion of Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 90:1-2, A Foundation for Prayer, sough...
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH, AND GROWETH UP; IN THE EVENING IT IS CUT DOWN, AND WITHERETH. The contras...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
The following is suggested as the most satisfactory rendering of these verses: _Time_ (literally, a _year;_ but the root-idea is the _repetition_ or _change of the seasons_)_ carries them away with it...
בַּ֭ † בֹּקֶר יָצִ֣יץ וְ חָלָ֑ף לָ֝...
Psalms 90:1 THE sad and stately music of this great psalm befits the dirge of a world. How artificial and poor, beside its restrained emotion and majestic simplicity, do even the most deeply felt stra...
THE MESSAGE OF THE PASSING YEARS Psalms 90:1 The majestic music of this great psalm separates it from all the rest. It is like the deep bass stop of a mighty organ. Moses' authorship is stamped upon...
The main purpose of this psalm is revealed in the prayer with which it concludes (vv. Psa 90:13-17). This prayer is prefaced by a meditation on the frailty of man (vv. Psa 90:3-12), in the light of et...
Day. Neither open attacks, nor unforeseen accidents prevail. (Calmet) --- Business. Hebrew dabar, "thing," ver. 3., "the pestilence." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- The Hebrews suppose, that one angel pre...
Here are several beautiful figures, illustrative of man's short and transitory state of existence: first, as a flood, whose tide never stops a moment from flowing, but sweeps everything before it: nex...
BOOK 4 - PSALMS 90-106 The fourth Book is not so markedly separated from the third, as the preceding three from one another; and specially the third from the first two, because the third, while prophe...
IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH AND GROWETH UP,.... That is, the grass, through the dew that lay all night on it, and by the clear shining of the sun after rain, when it appears in great beauty and verd...
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Ver. 6. _In the morning it flourisheth_] So doth man in his prime and vigour, his bones full of marrow, hi...
_Thou carriest them away_ Namely, mankind, of whom he spake Psalms 90:3. _As with a flood_ Unexpectedly, violently, and irresistibly. _They are as a sleep_ Short and vain as sleep is, and not minded t...
THE MERCY OF GOD MAN'S ONLY REFUGE. A prayer of Moses, the man of God, the prophet who stood in the relation of an intimate friend to the God of Israel, who here contrasts man's frailty, the conseque...
In the morning it flourisheth, the flowers of the prairies and meadows opening their blossoms in rapid succession, AND GROWETH UP; IN THE EVENING IT IS CUT DOWN, the scythe putting an end to the short...
1-6 It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israel in the wilderness, Psalms 90:14. The favour and protection of God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evi...
Psalms 90:6 morning H1242 flourishes H6692 (H8686) up H2498 (H8804) evening H6153 down H4135 (H8787) withers...
Psalms 90 This Psalm sets out with the definite statement of a theologic doctrine: the doctrine of the eternity of God. I. This splendid thought of the Divine eternity is made to touch the shifting...
Psalms 90:1 is entitled «A Prayer of Moses the man of God,» and it furnishes a suitable prayer for every man of God. Any men of God who have had experience as deep, and trying, and varied as that of M...
«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» I think this Psalm has been very much misunderstood, because the title has been forgotten. It is not a Psalm for us in its entirety: it cannot be read by the Chris...
«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» It is well to know the author, because it helps you to an understanding of the psalm. Remember that Moses lived in the midst of a pilgrim people who were dwelling...
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. It may help us to understand this Psalm if we recollect the circumstances which surrounded Moses when he was in the desert. For forty years, he had to see a whole gen...
CONTENTS: The frailty of man and his consequent need of being submitted to God's sentences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Men are dying creatures and all their comforts in the world are likewi...
The fourth book of Hebrew psalms opens here. The characters of the composition are majestic and sublime beyond imitation. The Chaldaic says, that this was a prayer of Moses, when the Hebrews were cut...
_Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations._ THE PRAYER OF MOSES The propriety of the title is confirmed by the psalm’s unique simplicity and grandeur; its appropriateness to his tim...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:3 In contrast to God’s eternity, human life—even the longest imaginable (A THOUSAND YEARS)—is insignificantly brief (A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, A FLOOD,
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A prayer of Moses the man of God_.” “The Psalm is described in the title,” says Hengstenberg, “as a _prayer_. This description shows, as Amyraldus saw, that the kernel...
EXPOSITION THE ascription of this psalm in the title to Moses must be admitted to be very remarkable. No other psalm is so ascribed. Nor indeed is a date given to any other earlier than the time of Da...
Psa 90:1-17 is a psalm of Moses. Now Moses was also a writer and he wrote psalms and songs, and this is one of the psalms of Moses. LORD [or Jehovah], thou hast been our dwelling place in all generat...
Job 14:2; Matthew 6:30; Psalms 92:7...