Psalms 90:3-6

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, a dream, grass). See v. Psalms 90:10; Psalms 103:15; James 1:11. The psalm recalls God’s sentence in Eden on Adam and Eve’s sin (Psalms 90:3); the short life spans of humans are due to sin’s entry into the world.