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Verse Psalms 90:7. _WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER_] _Death_ had not
entered into the world, if men had not fallen from God.
_BY THY WRATH ARE WE TROUBLED_] Pain, disease, and sickness are so
many p...
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FOR WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER - That is, Death - the cutting off
of the race of man - may be regarded as an expression of thy
displeasure against mankind as a race of sinners. The death of man
wo...
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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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_For_&c. This is the Psalmist's reason for reminding God of the
frailty of human life. We Israel have been consumed through thine
anger, and through thy wrath have we been dismayed. He speaks of it
no...
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Human life is at best brief and uncertain; and Israel's life is being
spent under the cloud of God's wrath for the punishment of its sins....
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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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And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow - i:e., if one be possessed of an unusually
strong constitution, and thereby his years reach fourscore. T...
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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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WE. — The change to the first person plural shows that the poet was
not merely moralising on the brevity of human life, but uttering a
dirge over the departed glory of Israel. Instead of proving super...
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כִּֽי ־כָלִ֥ינוּ בְ אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּֽ בַ
חֲמָתְךָ֥
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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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For we are (g) consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
troubled.
(g) You called us by the rods to consider the storms of our life and
for our sins you shorten our days....
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_Fall. Or "attack,....but shall not come nigh to thee." (Eusebius)
(Calmet) --- How great soever may be the number of thy adversaries,
they shall not be able to do thee any harm. They shall at thy fee...
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Here are several beautiful figures, illustrative of man's short and
transitory state of existence: first, as a flood, whose tide never
stops a moment from flowing, but sweeps everything before it: nex...
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7_For we fail by thy anger. _Moses makes mention of the anger of God
advisedly; for it is necessary that men be touched with the feeling of
this, in order to their considering in good earnest, what ex...
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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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FOR WE ARE CONSUMED BY THINE ANGER,.... Kimchi applies this to the
Jews in captivity; but it is to be understood of the Israelites in the
wilderness, who are here introduced by Moses as owning and
ack...
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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Ver. 7. _For we are consumed by thine anger_] Justly conceived for
our sins, Psalms 90:8. This is a cause of death that philosoph...
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_We are consumed by thine anger_ Caused by our sinful state and lives.
Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might do by the course
of nature. _And by thy wrath are we troubled_ The generation...
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THE MERCY OF GOD MAN'S ONLY REFUGE.
A prayer of Moses, the man of God, the prophet who stood in the
relation of an intimate friend to the God of Israel, who here
contrasts man's frailty, the conseque...
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For we are consumed by Thine anger, withering away in the glow of its
heat, AND BY THY WRATH ARE WE TROUBLED, destroyed by the intense heat
of God's anger. Such is the impression which the destruction...
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7-11 The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but
the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen
coming from the displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to G...
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WE; either,
1. We men; or rather,
2. We Israelites in this wilderness. CONSUMED; either naturally, by
the frame of our bodies; or violently, by extraordinary judgments.
Thou dost not suffer us to li...
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Psalms 90:7 consumed H3615 (H8804) anger H639 wrath H2534 terrified
H926 (H8738)
For we - Psalms 90
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Psalms 90:7
I. In this passage we find: (1) an exercise of penitential faith or
believing repentance; (2) an exercise of believing appropriation and
assurance.
II. The three petitions in Psalms 90:16...
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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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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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_For we are consumed by Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we
troubled._
MAN UNDER A CONSCIOUSNESS OF DIVINE DISPLEASURE
I. It arose from a sense of moral wrong. “Thou hast set our
iniquities before T...
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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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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:7 God’s people reflect on the
unfaithfulness of past generations. They harbored INIQUITIES and
SECRET SINS, which resulted in God’s ANGER and...
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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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Are consumed — Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might
by the course of nature....