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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ,...
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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...
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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...
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בְּ טֶ֤רֶם ׀ הָ֘רִ֤ים יֻלָּ֗דוּ וַ
תְּחֹ֣ולֵֽל...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_ 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...
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Psalms 90:2 mountains H2022 forth H3205 (H8795) formed H2342 (H8787)
earth H776 world H8398 everlasting...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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«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...
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«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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to
some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 6:15; 1 Timothy 6:16; Genesis 1:1; Habakkuk 1:12; Hebrews
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Thou — Thou hadst thy power, and all thy perfections, from all
eternity....