Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:2
Thou — Thou hadst thy power, and all thy perfections, from all eternity.
Thou — Thou hadst thy power, and all thy perfections, from all eternity.
Verse Psalms 90:2. _BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH_] The mountains and hills _appear_ to have been everlasting; but as they were _brought forth_ out of the womb of eternity, there was a _tim...
BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH - Before the earth brought forth or produced the mountains. In the description of the creation it would be natural to represent the mountains as the first objec...
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...
OR.. Ere. Positive, not comparative. Anglo-Saxon _aer,_ from which we have our modern "ere"; found formerly as "er", "ear", and "yer". In Authorized Version, 1611, Numbers 11:33 read "yer it was chewe...
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....
_the mountains_ Named first because they were regarded as the most ancient parts of the earth. Cp. Deuteronomy 33:15; Proverbs 8:25; Habakkuk 3:6. _thou hadst formed_ Lit. _didst travail in birth with...
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...
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH, OR EVER THOU H...
90:2 forth, (b-6) Or 'given birth to,' same in Hebrew as 'begot' in Deuteronomy 32:18 . formed (c-10) Or 'brought forth,' as Deuteronomy 32:18 ; Proverbs 8:24 ,...
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...
BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS. — Render either, “Before the mountains were born, Or ever the earth and world were brought forth,” in synonymous parallelism, or, better, in progressive, “Before the mountains...
בְּ טֶ֤רֶם ׀ הָ֘רִ֤ים יֻלָּ֗דוּ וַ תְּחֹ֣ולֵֽל...
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...
Before the (c) mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God. (c) You have chosen us to be your people before t...
Nothing within the compass of words can more strongly define the vast and immeasurable distance between the eternity of Jehovah and the vapourish life of man, than what these few verses express. The e...
2_Before the mountains were brought forth. _Moses designs to set forth some high and hidden mystery, and yet he seems to speak feebly, and, as it were, in a puerile manner. For who does not know that...
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...
BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH,.... Or "were born" b, and came forth out of the womb and bowels of the earth, and were made to rise and stand up at the command of God, as they did when he fir...
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God. Ver. 2. _Before the mountains were brought forth_] An...
_Before the mountains_ The most fixed and stable parts of the earth; _were brought forth_ That is, arose out of the waters; _or ever thou hadst formed the earth_, &c. That is, from eternity, which is...
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...
Before the mountains were brought forth, by a process of divine generation, OR EVER THOU HADST FORMED THE EARTH AND THE WORLD, bringing them into existence in a manner exceeding human comprehension, b...
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...
_ The mountains_; which he mentions as the most fixed and stable part of the earth. _Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world_, i.e. from eternity; which is frequently described in this manne...
Psalms 90:2 mountains H2022 forth H3205 (H8795) formed H2342 (H8787) earth H776 world H8398 everlasting...
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 Scripture certainly emphasises in many places the frail and fleeting aspect of life; the thought of man's mortality runs as a wail through many a psalm, and touches with pathos the heart o...
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...
«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.» 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...
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...
_Even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God._ THE ETERNITY O GOD I. In what respects God is eternal. 1. Without beginning. 2. Without end. 3. Without succession or change. Of a creature it...
_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,...
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 Timothy 6:15; 1 Timothy 6:16; Genesis 1:1; Habakkuk 1:12; Hebrews