Psalm 90:2

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

the Message of the Passing Years Psalms 90:1-17 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 it. It is worthy of the man who had seen God face to face. Psalms 90:1-6 . The transitoriness of human life is contrasted with the stability of God. He is the asylum and home of all the generations of mankind, Deuteronomy 33:27 . The earth and its mountains the universe and its worlds, were... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

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 90:2

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

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 90:1-2

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

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 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 generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God ( Psalms 90:1-2 ).Declaring the eternal nature of God. Before the world ever existed, from everlasting to everlasting.The word everlasting is an... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 90:1-17

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 off in the desert. See note on Psalms 90:10. Psalms 90:1 . Our dwelling-place, עון on, or as the Gothic, wone, to dwell, to inhabit, to co-inhabit: the reference is to the mercyseat. The LXX, Vulgate, and other Versions read, “place of defence,” or refuge; for in God is our refuge, even... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 90:1-17Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.The prayer of MosesThe propriety of the title is confirmed by the psalm’s unique simplicity and grandeur; its appropriateness to his times and circumstances at the close of the error in the wilderness; its resemblance to the law in urging the connection between sin and death; its similarity of diction to the poetical portions of the Pentateuch (Exodus 15:1-27; Deuteronomy 32:1-52; Deuteronomy 33:1-29), without the... read more

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