Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:5
Them — Mankind. Away — Universally, without exception or distinction. A sleep — Short and vain, as sleep is, and not minded 'till it be past.
Them — Mankind. Away — Universally, without exception or distinction. A sleep — Short and vain, as sleep is, and not minded 'till it be past.
Verse Psalms 90:5. _THOU CARRIEST THEM AWAY AS WITH A FLOOD_] Life is compared to a _stream_, ever _gliding away_; but sometimes it is as a _mighty torrent_, when by reason of _plague, famine_, or _w...
THOU CARRIEST THEM AWAY AS WITH A FLOOD - The original here is a single verb with the suffix - זרמתם _z__e__ram__e__tâm_. The verb - זרם _zâram_ - means, to flow, to pour; then, to pour upon, to ove...
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...
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...
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....
_Thou carriest them away as with a flood_ A single word in the Heb. suffices to draw the picture. Man is compared to a building swept away by a sudden burst of rain such as is common in the East. Cp....
THOU CARRIEST THEM AWAY AS WITH A FLOOD— Agreeable to the ideas in the foregoing verses, death is here considered as a sort of sleep; from whence they should awake in the morning, fresh and flourishin...
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...
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. THOU CARRIEST THEM AWAY AS WITH A FLOOD - as one is unexpectedly and irresistibly...
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...
The following is suggested as the most satisfactory rendering of these verses: _Time_ (literally, a _year;_ but the root-idea is the _repetition_ or _change of the seasons_)_ carries them away with it...
זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝ † בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּ...
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...
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...
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...
Thou (f) carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. (f) You take them away suddenly as with a flood....
Shield. God's fidelity, or word, affords the best protection, Proverbs xxx. 5. (Calmet) --- Having the spirit of faith, a man is secure. But he whose heart is hardened, (Berthier) is covered with the...
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...
5_Thou carriest them away as with a flood. _Moses confirms what he had previously said, That men, so long as they are sojourners in this world, perform, as it were, a revolution which lasts only for a...
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...
THOU CARRIEST THEM AWAY AS WITH A FLOOD,.... As the whole world of the ungodly were with the deluge, to which perhaps the allusion is; the phrase is expressive of death; so the Targum, "if they are n...
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. Ver. 5. _Thou carriest them away as with a flood_] Suddenly, violently, irresi...
_Thou carriest them away_ Namely, mankind, of whom he spake Psalms 90:3. _As with a flood_ Unexpectedly, violently, and irresistibly. _They are as a sleep_ Short and vain as sleep is, and not minded t...
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...
Thou carriest them away as with a flood, a heavy and devastating rain, whose swift destruction carries mortals away into the sleep of death; THEY ARE AS A SLEEP, their whole life is a sleep or a dream...
GROWETH UP: Or, is changed...
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...
THEM, i.e. mankind, of whom he spake, PSALMS 90:8. AS WITH A FLOOD; unexpectedly, violently and irresistibly, universally, without exception or distinction. AS A SLEEP; short and vain, as sleep is, an...
Psalms 90:5 flood H2229 (H8804) sleep H8142 morning H1242 grass H2682 up H2498 (H8799) Thou -...
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...
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...
«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...
«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...
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...
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...
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...
_Thou carriest them away as with a flood._ THE DEVASTATING RAVAGES OF DEATH The Israelites had not yet witnessed the swellings of Jordan, through which, by their Maker’s presence and power, they were...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:3 In contrast to God’s eternity, human life—even the longest imaginable (A THOUSAND YEARS)—is insignificantly brief (A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, A FLOOD,
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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 1:24; Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8; Isaiah 40:6; Isaiah 8:7;...