(e) For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
(e) Though man thinks his life is long, which is indeed most short, yet though it were a thousand years, yet in God's sight it is as nothing, and as the watch that lasts only three hours.
Verse Psalms 90:4. _FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT_] As if he had said, Though the resurrection of the body may be a _thousand_ (or any indefinite number of) years distant; yet, when these are pas...
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT - Hebrew, “In thy eyes;” that is, It so appears to thee - or, a thousand years so seem to thee, however long they may appear to man. The utmost length to which the li...
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...
A THOUSAND YEARS. Compare 2 Peter 3:8....
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 precise connexion of the thought is obscure. Some commentators connect Psalms 90:4 with Psalms 90:2, treating Psalms 90:3 as a parenthesis. -Thou art eternal, for lapse of time makes no difference...
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...
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY WHEN IT IS PAST, AND AS A WATCH IN THE NI...
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...
A THOUSAND YEARS. — This verse, which, when Peter II. was written (see _New Testament Commentary_), had already begun to receive an arithmetical treatment, and to be made the basis for Millennarian co...
כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽ עֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּ יֹ֣ו
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...
_With. Septuagint, "upon." St. Augustine, "between," as the Lord carried Israel, Deuteronomy xxxii. 11. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "he will cover thee with his feathers," (Haydock) like an eagle. (Menochius...
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...
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 A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY,.... Which may be said to obviate the difficulty in man's return, or resurrection, from the dead, taken from the length of time in which some hav...
For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. Ver. 4. _For a thousand years in thy sight, &c._] _q.d._ Live men a longer or shorter space, _...
_For a thousand years_ If we should now live so long, (as some of our progenitors nearly did,) _in thy sight_ In thy account, and therefore in truth; which is opposed to the partial and false judgment...
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 a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, the eternal God, for whom, strictly speaking, time does not exist, regards them as nothing more than a disappearing moment, AND...
WHEN IT IS PAST: Or, when he hath passed them...
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...
A THOUSAND YEARS, if we should now live so long, as some of our progenitors well nigh did. As he compared man's duration with God's in respect of its beginning, PSALMS 90:2, so here he compareth them...
Psalms 90:4 thousand H505 years H8141 sight H5869 like H3117 yesterday H865 past H5674 (H8799) watch H821 night...
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 a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night._ GOD’S ESTIMATE OF TIME 1. Let us set this truth before our minds: that which seems a long seaso...
_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 90:3 In contrast to God’s eternity, human life—even the longest imaginable (A THOUSAND YEARS)—is insignificantly brief (A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, A FLOOD,
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...
2 Peter 3:8; Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25; Matthew 24:43...
Past — Indeed time seems long when it is to come, but when it is past, very short and contemptible. A watch — Which lasted but three or four hours....