Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:7
Are consumed — Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might by the course of nature.
Are consumed — Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might by the course of nature.
Verse Psalms 90:7. _WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER_] _Death_ had not entered into the world, if men had not fallen from God. _BY THY WRATH ARE WE TROUBLED_] Pain, disease, and sickness are so many p...
FOR WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER - That is, Death - the cutting off of the race of man - may be regarded as an expression of thy displeasure against mankind as a race of sinners. The death of man wo...
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...
_For_&c. This is the Psalmist's reason for reminding God of the frailty of human life. We Israel have been consumed through thine anger, and through thy wrath have we been dismayed. He speaks of it no...
Human life is at best brief and uncertain; and Israel's life is being spent under the cloud of God's wrath for the punishment of its sins....
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...
And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow - i:e., if one be possessed of an unusually strong constitution, and thereby his years reach fourscore. T...
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...
WE. — The change to the first person plural shows that the poet was not merely moralising on the brevity of human life, but uttering a dirge over the departed glory of Israel. Instead of proving super...
כִּֽי ־כָלִ֥ינוּ בְ אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּֽ בַ חֲמָתְךָ֥
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...
For we are (g) consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. (g) You called us by the rods to consider the storms of our life and for our sins you shorten our days....
_Fall. Or "attack,....but shall not come nigh to thee." (Eusebius) (Calmet) --- How great soever may be the number of thy adversaries, they shall not be able to do thee any harm. They shall at thy fee...
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...
7_For we fail by thy anger. _Moses makes mention of the anger of God advisedly; for it is necessary that men be touched with the feeling of this, in order to their considering in good earnest, what ex...
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...
FOR WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER,.... Kimchi applies this to the Jews in captivity; but it is to be understood of the Israelites in the wilderness, who are here introduced by Moses as owning and ack...
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 philosoph...
_We are consumed by thine anger_ Caused by our sinful state and lives. Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might do by the course of nature. _And by thy wrath are we troubled_ The generation...
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...
For we are consumed by Thine anger, withering away in the glow of its heat, AND BY THY WRATH ARE WE TROUBLED, destroyed by the intense heat of God's anger. Such is the impression which the destruction...
7-11 The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen coming from the displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to G...
WE; either, 1. We men; or rather, 2. We Israelites in this wilderness. CONSUMED; either naturally, by the frame of our bodies; or violently, by extraordinary judgments. Thou dost not suffer us to li...
Psalms 90:7 consumed H3615 (H8804) anger H639 wrath H2534 terrified H926 (H8738) For we - Psalms 90
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 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...
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...
_For we are consumed by Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we troubled._ MAN UNDER A CONSCIOUSNESS OF DIVINE DISPLEASURE I. It arose from a sense of moral wrong. “Thou hast set our iniquities before T...
_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 90:7 God’s people reflect on the unfaithfulness of past generations. They harbored INIQUITIES and SECRET SINS, which resulted in God’s ANGER and...
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...
Deuteronomy 2:14; Exodus 14:24; Hebrews 3:10; Hebrews 3:11; Heb