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The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:10

Psalms 90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten.The days of our yearsI. Life’s earthly limit. “Threescore years and ten.”1. How long when viewed in the light of time--when compared with the common lot of mankind.2. How short when viewed in the light of eternity.II. Life’s common heritage. “Yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”1. Life even at its best estate is made up largely of labour and sorrow, of working and weeping.2. Thank God for the labour and the sorrow, for they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:11

Psalms 90:11Who knoweth the power of Thine anger?even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath. The power of God’s angerI. When I consider the difficulties which lie in the way of our measuring the power of anger that resides in the bosom of God, I conclude that it is chiefly His steady and orderly goodness which has thrust His displeasure out of sight. Only occasionally does nature suggest wrath. Her deliberate arrangements are all inspired by goodness. I have often had occasion to observe how... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:12-17

Psalms 90:12-17So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Man imploring the mercy of GodMoses prays--I. For a right estimate as to the duration of life. “Teach us to number our days,” etc.,1. There is a certain judgment to be formed as to the duration of our earthly life. The prayer does not mean that we should know the hour, scene, or circumstance of our end; but that we should have a practical impression that life is temporary and preparative.2. There is a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:13

Psalms 90:13Return, O Lord, how long?and let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants. God’s return to the soul or nationI. God doth sometimes desert and depart from His people for a time. Not in regard of their union, but in regard of communion and manifestation. Though nothing is hid from the heat of this sun, yet our souls may be hid from the light of this sun: God doth sometimes depart from His own people. There are some graces that do not open nor show themselves but in the sunshining day of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:14

Psalms 90:14O satisfy us early with Thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.An early interest in God’s mercy essential to a happy life1. That a man may live happily, that he may rejoice and be glad all his days, it is necessary that he should be early freed from all fears of death. Will it be said, he may refuse to think of death? I answer, he cannot always banish this subject from his thoughts in a world like this, where so many things occur which are suited to remind him of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:15-17

Psalms 90:15-17Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Gladness for sadnessOur prayer should be for--I. Proportionate gladness; that our God who has filled one scale with grief would fill the other scale with grace till they balance each other. I have been told on the Scotch lakes that the depth of the lake is almost always the same as the height of the surrounding hills; and I think I have heard that the same is true of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:16

Psalms 90:16Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children.The religious consecration of our householdsI. Truths suggested in this prayer.1. That real religion, wherever it exists, is a Divine production in the human mind. “Thy works,” etc. It is a work, and a work of God. God begins it.2. That they who have experienced its power and preciousness themselves are anxious for its prevalence among those most dear to them. “Their children.”3. That the preservation of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:17

Psalms 90:17Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. The beauty of the LordWe all feel moral beauty to be the highest. Much as we may admire the delicate touches of light and shade in a landscape, the rainbow tints on the rosy-coloured Alps, the beautiful gothic of the arched forest, the fragrant Kentish banks, the human face divine, yet we all feel that given a touch of heroism, martyr-like courage, or persevering fidelity to truth, the beauty of character as far exceeds beauty of face... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:1

Psalms 90:1 « A Prayer of Moses the man of God. » Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. A Prayer of Moses ] Made by him, belike, when he saw the carcases of the people fall so fast in the wilderness; committed to writing for the instruction of those that were left alive, but sentenced to death, Numbers 14:26-38 , and here fitly placed as an illustration of that which was said in the precedent psalm, Psalms 89:48 , "What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:2

Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God. Ver. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth ] And they were made at the creation, not cast up by the flood, as some have held. Moses first celebrateth God’s eternity, and then setteth forth man’s mortality; that the one being set over against the other, as Solomon speaketh in another case, Ecclesiastes 7:14 , God may be glorified, and... read more

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