Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:17
The beauty — His gracious influence, and glorious presence. In us — Do not only work for us, but in us,
The beauty — His gracious influence, and glorious presence. In us — Do not only work for us, but in us,
Verse Psalms 90:17. _AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD_] Let us have thy _presence, blessing_, and _approbation_, as our fathers had. _ESTABLISH THOU THE WORK OF OUR HANDS_] This is supposed, we have a...
AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD OUR GOD BE UPON US - The word translated “beauty” - נעם _nô‛am_ - means properly “pleasantness;” then, beauty, splendor; then grace or layout. The Septuagint renders it...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
Prayer for such a restoration of God's favour to His people as will gladden the members of it through the brief span of life. Perhaps the connexion with the preceding verses is the hope that Israel's...
_the beauty_ Or, _pleasantness_: the gracious kindliness of Jehovah. Cp. Psalms 27:4; Proverbs 3:17. _the work of our hands_ A phrase characteristic of Deuteronomy, where it occurs seven times. All t...
DISCOURSE: 653 THE BEAUTY OF JEHOVAH IMPARTED TO HIS PEOPLE Psalms 90:17. _Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us!_ IT is pleasing to think that in every age the Lord has many “hidden ones:” e...
AND LET THE BEAUTY, &C.— _Let the countenance of the Lord our God smile upon me; and prosper thou the work of our hands._ Green. Bishop Hare and Houbigant have observed, that the four words at the end...
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...
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. -The Second division of the Second part. Prayer for God's mercy as the source to us of joy, and of the establishment of our...
90:17 beauty (l-4) See Psalms 27:4 ....
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...
BEAUTY. — Or, _pleasantness._ The Hebrew word, like the Greek χάρις_,_ and our “grace,” seems to combine the ideas of “beauty” and “favour.”...
וִ יהִ֤י ׀ נֹ֤עַם אֲדֹנָ֥י אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עָ֫לֵ֥ינוּ...
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...
And let the (p) beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and (q) establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. (p) Meaning, that is was obscured when he ce...
PSALM XC. (QUI HABITAT.) The just is secure under the protection of God....
These verses contain the sanctified use of the foregoing meditations. If such be the transitory state of man upon earth, Lord cause thy people to improve these appointments of thine, to thy glory, and...
REFLECTIONS READER, have you ever contemplated, in the point of view this blessed Psalm represents it, the dying circumstances of a perishing world? There is nothing which, under grace, can more effec...
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...
AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD OUR GOD BE UPON US,.... Either the grace and favour of God, his gracious presence vouchsafed in his ordinances, which makes his tabernacles amiable and lovely, and his w...
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Ver. 17. _And let the beauty of the Lord, &c._] _i.e...
_Return, O Lord_ To us in mercy. _How long?_ Understand, _wilt thou be angry?_ Or, _will it be ere thou return to us? Let it repent thee_, &c. Of thy severe proceedings against us. _O satisfy us early...
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...
And let the beauty of the Lord, our God, the sweet favor of the Majestic and All-powerful, who is at the same time the God of our salvation, BE UPON US, resting upon the believers throughout their liv...
12-17 Those who would learn true wisdom, must pray for Divine instruction, must beg to be taught by the Holy Spirit; and for comfort and joy in the returns of God's favour. They pray for the mercy of...
THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD, i.e. his favourable countenance, and gracious influence, and glorious presence. UPON US; or, _in us_. Do not only work for us, but in us. And because the glorious work of thy h...
Psalms 90:17 beauty H5278 LORD H3068 God H430 establish H3559 (H8786) work H4639 hands H3027 establish H3559 ...
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 90:17 I. What is the beauty of God? The excellence of His character. The meaning of all beauty is to image the holiness and excellence of God. The perception of beauty has been given us not, as...
Psalms 90:16 I. The prayer of the Psalmist is not the prayer of the wearied, disappointed prophet, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life," but the prayer of one who looks forward, of one who w...
Psalms 90:7 I. In this passage we find: (1) an exercise of penitential faith or believing repentance; (2) an exercise of believing appropriation and assurance. II. The three petitions in Psalms 90:16...
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...
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...
_Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil._ GLADNESS FOR SADNESS Our prayer should be for-- I. Proportionate gladness; that our God...
_Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us._ THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD We all feel moral beauty to be the highest. Much as we may admire the delicate touches of light and shade in a landscape, the r...
_So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom._ MAN IMPLORING THE MERCY OF GOD Moses prays-- I. For a right estimate as to the duration of life. “Teach us to number our...
_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 90:16 LET YOUR WORK BE SHOWN, that is, display your love toward your people in great deeds of power that enable them to flourish. TO THEIR CHILDREN. God made his covenant with Abr...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:7; 1 John 3:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:16;...