Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we (h) spend our years as a tale [that is told].
(h) Our days are not only short but miserable as our sins daily provoke your wrath.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we (h) spend our years as a tale [that is told].
(h) Our days are not only short but miserable as our sins daily provoke your wrath.
Verse Psalms 90:9. _WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE_] The _Vulgate_ has: Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur; "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our _plans_ and _operations_ are like the...
FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH - Margin, “turned.” The Hebrew word - פנה _pânâh_ - means to “turn;” then, to turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or depart....
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...
ARE PASSED AWAY. have declined, or ended. A TALE THAT IS TOLD. a thought, or. sigh....
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....
_are passed away_ Lit. _turn_or _decline_towards evening (Jeremiah 6:4). We are "a generation of thy wrath" (Jeremiah 7:29). Our life is drawing to a close under a cloud; there is no sign of -light at...
WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD— Or, _We end our years as a thought._...
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...
90:9 thought. (f-17) Or 'sigh.'...
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...
ARE PASSED AWAY. — Better, _are declining._ A TALE. — Rather, _a murmur._ (See Note, Psalms 1:2.) Probably, from the parallelism with _wrath,_ a moan of sadness. So in Ezekiel 2:10, “a sound of woe.”...
כִּ֣י כָל ־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְ עֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כ
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...
Because. Saying, Thou, &c. (Worthington; ver. 1.) (Calmet) --- High. Hebrew helyon is a title of God, (Calmet) not the adjective to refuge, (Berthier) as Chaldean, Aquila, &c., have taken it. "Thou ha...
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...
9._For all our days are passed away in thy indignation. _This might be viewed as a general confirmation of the preceding sentence, That the whole course of man’s life is suddenly brought to an end, as...
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 ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH,.... The life of man is rather measured by days than by months or years; and these are but few, which pass away or "decline" g as the day does towards the...
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. Ver. 9. _For all our days are passed away_] Heb. do turn away the face. See Psalms 90:3 . _ We spend our y...
_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...
For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath, they are diminished. they vanish, because the anger of the Lord is manifested upon the sins; WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD, like a murmuring,...
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...
PASSED AWAY: _ Heb._ turned away AS A TALE THAT IS OLD...
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...
ARE PASSED AWAY; or, _turn away themselves_ or _their face_ from us. They do not continue with us, but quickly turn their backs upon us, and leave us. AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD; which may a little affect...
Psalms 90:9 days H3117 away H6437 (H8804) wrath H5678 finish H3615 (H8765) years H8141 sigh H1899 For
Psalms 90:9 No part of the ancient Scriptures is less obsolete than this Psalm. It is a picture still true to nature. Human life, viewed generally, has not since brightened up into a scene of joy and...
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...
_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...
_We spend our years as a tale that is told._ LIFE--A TALE Assuming this version to give the true idea of the author, we have here three thoughts, 1. Significance. A tale has some meaning; is intend...
_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...
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...
Psalms 39:5; Psalms 78:33; Psalms 90:4...