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PSALM XC
_The eternity of God_, 1, 2;
_the frailty of the state of man_, 3-9;
_the general limits of human life_, 10;
_the danger of displeasing God_, 11;
_the necessity of considering the shortn...
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LORD - Not יהוה _Yahweh_ here, but אדני _'Adonāy_. The word
is properly rendered “Lord,” but it is a term which is often
applied to God. It indicates, however, nothing in regard to his
character or a...
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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...
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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...
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TITLE.. PRAYER. Hebrew. _Tephillah._ See App-63.
MOSES: the man of the wilderness. Hence the wilderness, and works of
creation, referred to.
THE MAN OF GOD. See App-49. There are _seven_ specially so...
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_Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place_ The Psalmist addresses God
not by the covenant Name Jehovah (Lord), but by the title which
designates Him as the Ruler of the world. He not merely is, but has...
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The Psalmist's confession that God is Israel's refuge; that He alone
is the Eternal; that He is the sovereign Disposer of human life....
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_Moses, setting forth God's providence, complaineth of human
fragility, divine chastisements, and brevity of life: he prayeth for
the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence._
A Pr...
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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...
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LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms 90:1.-A meditation: the Lord our dwelling-place, the
counterpoise to our transitory life: death, the wages of sin (Psalms
90:1); p...
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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...
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DWELLING PLACE. — LXX. and Vulg., “refuse,” possibly reading
_maôz_ (as in Psalms 37:39) instead of _maôn._ So some MSS. But
Deuteronomy 33:17 has the feminine of this latter word, and the idea
of a _...
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תְּפִלָּה֮ לְ מֹשֶׁ֪ה אִֽישׁ ־הָ
אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים א
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"A Prayer of Moses (a) the man of God." Lord, thou hast been our (b)
dwelling place in all generations.
(a) Thus the Scripture refers to the prophets.
(b) You have been as a house and defence to us...
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David. Septuagint add, "it has no title in Hebrew," and hence the Jews
refer it to the preceding author, with St. Jerome, &c. But this rule
is very uncertain. (Calmet) (Berthier) --- Some suppose that...
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CONTENTS
We cannot be at a loss to form a proper idea of the antiquity of this
Psalm; for the title shows that Moses was the penman of it. Perhaps it
was written at the time when the Lord determined,...
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1_O Lord! thou hast been our dwelling-place. _In separating the seed
of Abraham by special privilege from the rest of the human family, the
Psalmist magnifies the grace of adoption, by which God had e...
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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...
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LORD, THOU HAST BEEN OUR DWELLING PLACE IN ALL GENERATIONS,.... Even
when they had no certain dwelling place in the world; so their
ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, dwelt in tabernacles in the la...
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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 f...
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_Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place_, &c. Although we and our
fathers, for some generations, have had no fixed habitation, but have
been _strangers in a land_ that was _not ours_, and afflicted f...
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IN ALL GENERATIONS:
_ Heb._ in generation and generation...
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1-6 It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on
Israel in the wilderness, Psalms 90:14. The favour and protection of
God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evi...
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PSALM 90 Who, considering that terrible but righteous sentence of God
concerning the cutting off all that sinful generation in the
wilderness, of which see NUM 14, takes that occasion to publish these...
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Psalms 90:1 Prayer H8605 Moses H4872 man H376 God H430 Lord H136 place
H4583 all H1755 generations H1755...
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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...
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Psalms 90:1
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 o...
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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 t...
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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...
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«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...
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«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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to
some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 4:16; 1 Kings 13:1; 1 Timothy 6:11; Deuteronomy 33:1;...
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Dwelling place — Although we and our fathers, for some generations,
have had no fixed habitation, yet thou hast been instead of a dwelling
— place to us, by thy watchful and gracious providence. And t...