Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:8
Hast set — Thou dost observe them, as a righteous judge, and art calling us to an account for them. Secret sins — Which though hid from the eyes of men, thou hast brought to light by thy judgments.
Hast set — Thou dost observe them, as a righteous judge, and art calling us to an account for them. Secret sins — Which though hid from the eyes of men, thou hast brought to light by thy judgments.
Verse Psalms 90:8. _THOU HAST SET OUR INIQUITIES BEFORE THEE_] Every one of our transgressions is _set before thee_; noted and minuted down in thy awful register! _OUR SECRET_ SINS] Those committed...
THOU HAST SET OUR INIQUITIES BEFORE THEE - Thou hast arrayed them, or brought them forth to view, as a “reason” in thy mind for cutting us down. Death may be regarded as proof that God has brought bef...
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...
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. SECRET. Hebrew is singular; hence we cannot supply "sins" but "[sin]". But some codices, with two early printed editions, read "secrets" (plural)...
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....
Instead of -hiding His face" from their sins He sets them all before Him, and drags them all to light. Elsewhere -the light of God's countenance" denotes His favour; here a slightly different word, li...
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...
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...
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...
OUR SECRET SINS. — Or, to keep the singular of the original, _our secret_ (character). The expression, “light of God’s countenance,” usually means “favour.” But here the word rendered light is not th...
_שַׁתָּ֣ה_† עֲוֹנֹתֵ֣ינוּ לְ נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ לִ מְאֹ֥ור
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...
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...
8_Thou hast set our iniquities before thee. _To show that by this complaint he is far from intending to murmur against God, he asserts that the Divine anger, however terrible it had been, was just, in...
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 HAST SET OUR SINS BEFORE THEE,.... The cause of all trouble, consumption, and death; these are before the Lord, as the evidence, according to which he as a righteous Judge proceeds; this is oppos...
_Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance._ Ver. 8. _Thou hast set our iniquities before thee_] As a judge doth the misdeeds of a malefactor, togeth...
_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...
Thou hast set our iniquities, the open wickedness of deliberately leaving the paths of righteousness, BEFORE THEE, so that none of them is omitted or overlooked, OUR SECRET SINS IN THE LIGHT OF THY CO...
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...
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...
Thou dost not now cover, or blot out, or pass by our sins, as thou hast usually done to thy people; but thou dost diligently search them out, and accurately observe them, as a severe but righteous Jud...
Psalms 90:8 set H7896 (H8804) iniquities H5771 secret H5956 (H8803) light H3974 countenance H6440 Thou -...
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...
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 hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance._ SIN ESTIMATED BY THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN God and men view objects through a very different medium, and are pla...
_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...
_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...
WHAT ARE THEY? Our secret sins. Psalms 90:8. Did you ever go into a dark room which had shutters on the window? Everything was black as night, but you knew where to find the bolt of the shutters, an...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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...
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 Corinthians 4:5; 1 John 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ezekiel 8:12;...