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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

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 eternity of god (vv. Psa 90:1-2 ). By this backward method of analysis we gain a conception of the general scheme of the psalm which now enables us to take the three movements in their orderly sequence. The eternity of God is described in three stages. First, as measured by the history of His... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

BOOK IV.— PSS. XC.– CVI. XC. Man’ s Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1-Joshua : . The nothingness of man’ s life, the eternity of God’ s life. Psalms 90:7-2 Samuel : . It is the sinfulness of man which makes his life so short. Psalms 90:11 f. Man’ s lot should teach him reverence and wisdom. Psalms 90:13-Esther : . Prayer for God’ s blessing in the future. Psalms 90:1 . dwelling-place: the thought is beautiful but irrelevant. The Psalmist is speaking of God’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:1

Although we and our fathers, for some generations, have had no certain and fixed habitation, but have been strangers in a land that was not ours, and afflicted for four hundred years, according to thy prediction, Genesis 15:13; and although we now are, and have been for some time, and still are like to continue, in, a vast howling wilderness, having no houses but dwelling in tents, and wandering from place to place, we know not whither; yet thou, O Lord, hast fully supplied this want, and hast... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:2

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 manner, as Proverbs 8:25,Proverbs 8:26; John 17:24; Ephesians 1:4, because there was nothing before the creation of the world but eternity. And thus the words here following do explain it. And this eternity of God is here mentioned, partly that men by the contemplation thereof might be wrought to a deeper... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:3

But as for man, his case is far otherwise, his time is short; and though he was made by thee a happy creature, and should have been immortal, yet upon and for his sin thou didst make him mortal and miserable. Sayest, or, didst say, i.e. pronounce that sad sentence here following, Return, O men, to the dust, out of which you were taken, Genesis 3:19; Psalms 146:4; Ecclesiastes 12:7. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:4

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 in respect of the end or continuance. In thy sight; in thy account, and therefore in truth; which is opposed to the partial and false judgment of men, who think time long because they do not understand eternity; or in comparison of thy endless duration. When it is past; which is emphatically added;... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“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 of the Psalm is the second part, and that the design of the first is to prepare the way for the second, and lay down a basis on which it may rest. For תְּפִלָּה denotes only prayer in the proper sense, supplicatory prayer.” On תְּפּלָּה as used hero Fuerst says: “תְפִלָּה is a peculiar kind of song in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1

Psalms 90:1 This is, beyond fair doubt, the oldest Psalm in the whole Psalter. It is the work, not of David, but, as the inscription tells us in the Bible version, of Moses. Especially like Moses is the union of melancholy and fervour which meets us here the fervour of the intrepid servant of God dashed by the melancholy which followed on his great disappointments. In this verse he is the spokesman and representative of all that is good and great in the past annals of mankind. He is speaking... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-2

Psalms 90:1-2 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 of the prophet in his brightest visions. But then there is always in Scripture another side of the picture; and this is the higher, and in the sense of Scripture the truer, side. The good is the original, the substantive of which evil is the inversion. The good is being; the evil is but negation... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 90:0 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 and inconstant character of our earthly state by the single word "dwelling-place." Here God's eternity opens itself to our needs. II. A correct view of the eternity of God conveys warning as well as comfort. (1) The eternal power of God convicts us of helplessness. (2) The eternal being of God... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

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