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THOU HAST SET OUR INIQUITIES BEFORE THEE - Thou hast arrayed them, or
brought them forth to view, as a “reason” in thy mind for cutting
us down. Death may be regarded as proof that God has brought bef...
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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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INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44.
SECRET. Hebrew is singular; hence we cannot supply "sins" but "[sin]".
But some codices, with two early printed editions, read "secrets"
(plural)...
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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....
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Instead of -hiding His face" from their sins He sets them all before
Him, and drags them all to light. Elsewhere -the light of God's
countenance" denotes His favour; here a slightly different word, li...
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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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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...
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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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OUR SECRET SINS. — Or, to keep the singular of the original, _our
secret_ (character).
The expression, “light of God’s countenance,” usually means
“favour.” But here the word rendered light is not th...
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_שַׁתָּ֣ה_† עֲוֹנֹתֵ֣ינוּ לְ
נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ לִ מְאֹ֥ור
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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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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...
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8_Thou hast set our iniquities before thee. _To show that by this
complaint he is far from intending to murmur against God, he asserts
that the Divine anger, however terrible it had been, was just,
in...
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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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THOU HAST SET OUR SINS BEFORE THEE,.... The cause of all trouble,
consumption, and death; these are before the Lord, as the evidence,
according to which he as a righteous Judge proceeds; this is oppos...
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_Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the
light of thy countenance._
Ver. 8. _Thou hast set our iniquities before thee_] As a judge doth
the misdeeds of a malefactor, togeth...
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_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...
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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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Thou hast set our iniquities, the open wickedness of deliberately
leaving the paths of righteousness, BEFORE THEE, so that none of them
is omitted or overlooked, OUR SECRET SINS IN THE LIGHT OF THY
CO...
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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...
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Thou dost not now cover, or blot out, or pass by our sins, as thou
hast usually done to thy people; but thou dost diligently search them
out, and accurately observe them, as a severe but righteous Jud...
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Psalms 90:8 set H7896 (H8804) iniquities H5771 secret H5956 (H8803)
light H3974 countenance H6440
Thou -...
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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 90:7
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...
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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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«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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«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. 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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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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_Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the
light of Thy countenance._
SIN ESTIMATED BY THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN
God and men view objects through a very different medium, and are
pla...
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_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...
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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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WHAT ARE THEY?
Our secret sins. Psalms 90:8.
Did you ever go into a dark room which had shutters on the window?
Everything was black as night, but you knew where to find the bolt of
the shutters, an...
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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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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...
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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 Corinthians 4:5; 1 John 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ezekiel 8:12;...
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Hast set — Thou dost observe them, as a righteous judge, and art
calling us to an account for them. Secret sins — Which though hid
from the eyes of men, thou hast brought to light by thy judgments....