Return, O Lord! how long— Return, O Lord! how long [will it be first]? Mudge: giving rather the meaning, than the emphatical energy of the original; which is best expressed by the abruptness of our version.
Verse Psalms 90:13. _RETURN, O LORD, HOW LONG?_] Wilt thou continue angry with us for ever? _LET IT REPENT THEE_] הנחם _hinnachem, be comforted_, rejoice over them to do them good. Be glorified rathe...
RETURN, O LORD - Come back to thy people; show mercy by sparing them. It would seem probable from this that the psalm was composed in a time of pestilence, or raging sickness, which threatened to swee...
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...
RETURN. Same word as Psalms 90:3. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. HOW LONG. Supply Ellipsis: "how long [shall we wait for Thy return]? ...
A combined reminiscence of Exodus 32:12 and Deuteronomy 32:36. Cp. too Psalms 6:3-4. _Return_is the most obvious rendering; but the passage in Ex. suggests that the meaning may be, _Turn_from thy wrat...
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 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...
90:13 thee (h-9) Or 'and be merciful to.'...
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...
RETURN. — Better, _turn,_ either from anger (Exodus 32:12), or merely as in Psalms 6:4, “turn to thy servant.” Plainly we have here the experience of some particular epoch, and a prayer for Israel. Fr...
שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה עַד ־מָתָ֑י וְ֝ הִנָּחֵ֗ם עַ
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...
Return, O LORD, (m) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. (m) Meaning, will you be angry?...
Asp. Which kills in eight hours time at farthest, making the blood congeal.--- Basilisk. "The little king" of serpents. What is related of it seems fabulous. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 21.; Soli...
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...
13._Return, O Jehovah! how long? _After having spoken in the language of complaint, Moses adds a prayer, That God, who had not ceased for a long time severely to punish his people, would at length be...
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...
RETURN, O LORD,.... Either from the fierceness of thine anger, according to Aben Ezra and Jarchi; of which complaint is made, Psalms 90:7, or unto us, from whom he had departed; for though God is eve...
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Ver. 13. _Let it repent thee_] Or, comfort thou thy servants....
_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...
Return, O Lord, how long? turning back His face in mercy, since it had been averted so long in anger. AND LET IT REPENT THEE CONCERNING THY SERVANTS, His merciful kindness not permitting the threatene...
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...
RETURN, O LORD, to us in mercy; for thou seemest to have forsaken us and cast us off. HOW LONG; understand, _wilt thou be angry_; or, _will it be ere thou return to us_ ? CONCERNING THY SERVANTS; i.e....
Psalms 90:13 Return H7725 (H8798) LORD H3068 compassion H5162 (H8734) servants H5650 Return - Psa
REPENT (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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...
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. 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...
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...
_Return, O Lord, how long?_ and let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants. GOD’S RETURN TO THE SOUL OR NATION I. God doth sometimes desert and depart from His people for a time. Not in regard of th...
_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 90:13 RETURN, that is, come back to us, turn from your anger (as in Exodus 32:12). IN THE MORNING. Probably
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...
Amos 7:3; Amos 7:6; Deuteronomy 32:36; Exodus 32:14; Hosea 11:8;...
Return — To us in mercy. How long — Will it be before thou return to us? Repent thee — Of thy severe proceedings against us....