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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:2

Verse 2 2Before 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 God existed before the world? This we grant is a truth which all men admit; but we will scarcely find one in a hundred who is thoroughly persuaded that God remains unchangeably the same. God is here contrasted with created beings, who, as all know, are subject to continual changes, so that... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:3

Verse 3 3Thou shalt turn man to destruction. Moses, in the first place, mentions how frail and transitory is the life of man, and bewails its miseries. This he does, not for the purpose of quarrelling with God, but as an argument to induce him the more readily to exercise his mercy, even as he is elsewhere said to pardon mortal men, when he considers of what they are made, and remembers that they are but dust and grass, (Psalms 103:14.) he compares the course of our life to a ring or circle,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

Lord, thou hast been our Dwelling place in all generations; or, "our habitation" (see Psalms 91:9 ); comp. Psalms 32:7 , "Thou art my Hiding place." For well nigh forty years Moses had had no fixed material dwelling place. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

The glorious habitation. It has been remarked that we have Moses presented to us in three aspects—as poet (see his song at the Red Sea); as preacher (see Deuteronomy and elsewhere); and as a man of prayer (see the closing verses of this psalm). These three characters are not often combined, but when they are they make the subject of them very powerful with God for man, and with man for God. And the secret of his eminence in each character was that his spirit's home was in God. Note— I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

God a Dwelling place. God our Home; the soul's Home. There seem to be no sufficient reasons for rejecting the Mosaic authorship of this psalm; but this much appears to be certain—the associations of the time of Moses form the machinery of the psalm; and there are no other associations which fit to it so well. During the last forty years of his life, and during the long years of the desert wanderings for Israel, the people had no home, no resting place; they were constantly moving to and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-2

The fundamental truths of all religion. "Lord, thou hast been our Dwelling place," etc. This psalm is a monument of spiritual power. It possesses in eminent. degree the perennial freshness which so wonderfully belongs to Scripture. Generations pass. Centuries mount up into thousands of years; but this ancient psalm lifts up its voice with undecaying strength and sweetness. It reminds us of a granite pillar which casts its unchanging image on a river which flows past, as it has flowed for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

The psalm is termed, "A Prayer of Moses, the man of God." It is, however, only in part a "prayer," Meditation occupies the opening portion ( Psalms 90:1-6 ); complaint follows ( Psalms 90:7-11 ); it is only with Psalms 90:12 that prayer begins. (For the application to Moses of the phrase, "man of God," see Deuteronomy 33:1 ; Joshua 14:6 ; Ezra 3:2 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

The Lord our Dwelling place. There is no need to doubt the assigned authorship of this psalm. It is in entire harmony with the facts and surroundings of Moses' and Israel's life in the wilderness. Observe— I. THE BLESSED FACT . The Lord our Dwelling place, which this psalm tells of at its beginning. Weary wanderers as the Israelites were, with no settled resting place, here today, gone tomorrow, how blessed for them that there was refuge, a dwelling place, a home, in God! And... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:2

Before the mountains were brought forth (comp. Proverbs 8:25 ). The "mountains" are mentioned as perhaps the grandest, and certainly among the oldest, of all the works of God. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world; literally, or thou gavest birth to the earth and the world (comp. Deuteronomy 32:18 ). Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God (comp. Psalms 93:2 ; Proverbs 8:23 ; Micah 5:2 ; Habakkuk 1:12 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:2

The past, present, and future eternity of God. "There is something in the psalm that is wonderfully striking and solemn, acquainting us with the profoundest depths of the Divine nature" (Ewald). In contrast with the ever-passing, ever-changing generations, God is the Abiding, Never-changing One. Independent of all things that exist, God is before all, and is the absolute Creator and Controller of all. The mountains have ever been man's best image of the stable and permanent, yet he is... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 90:2

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