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Verse Psalms 90:15. _MAKE US GLAD ACCORDING TO THE DAYS_] Let thy
people have as many years of _prosperity_ as they have had of
_adversity_. We have now suffered _seventy_ years of a most
distressful...
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MAKE US GLAD ACCORDING TO THE DAYS WHEREIN THOU HAST AFFLICTED US -
Let the one correspond with the other. Let our occasions of joy be
measured by the sorrows which have come upon us. As our suffering...
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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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ACCORDING TO THE DAYS... YEARS: i.e. the forty years in the
wilderness.
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44....
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Prayer for such a restoration of God's favour to His people as will
gladden the members of it through the brief span of life. Perhaps the
connexion with the preceding verses is the hope that Israel's...
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_Make us glad according to the days_&c. Let the joy of restoration to
Thy favour be proportioned to the depth of our humiliation. Cp. Isaiah
61:7. The form of the word for -days" (_y'môth_) occurs els...
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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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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
servants.
-The Second division of the Second part. Prayer for God's mercy as the
source to us of joy, and of the establishment of our...
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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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A prayer that prosperity may follow, proportionate to the mercy that
has been endured....
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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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_Tribulation. The just are not exempt from it. --- Glorify him, with
eternal salvation._...
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These verses contain the sanctified use of the foregoing meditations.
If such be the transitory state of man upon earth, Lord cause thy
people to improve these appointments of thine, to thy glory, and...
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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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MAKE US GLAD ACCORDING TO THE DAYS WHEREIN THOU HAST AFFLICTED US,....
The days of affliction are times of sorrow; and days of prosperity
make glad and joyful; and the psalmist here seems to desire an...
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Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us,
[and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
Ver. 15. _Make us glad according_] Let us have a proportion at least....
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_Return, O Lord_ To us in mercy. _How long?_ Understand, _wilt thou be
angry?_ Or, _will it be ere thou return to us? Let it repent thee_,
&c. Of thy severe proceedings against us. _O satisfy us early...
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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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Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, in
proportion to the period of misery which drove them to repentance, AND
THE YEARS WHEREIN WE HAVE SEEN EVIL. Cf Psalms 51:12....
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12-17 Those who would learn true wisdom, must pray for Divine
instruction, must beg to be taught by the Holy Spirit; and for comfort
and joy in the returns of God's favour. They pray for the mercy of...
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Our afflictions have been sharp and long, let not our prosperity be
small and short....
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Psalms 90:15 glad H8055 (H8761) days H3117 afflicted H6031 (H8765)
years H8141 seen H7200 (H8804) evil...
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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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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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«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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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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_Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us,
and the years wherein we have seen evil._
GLADNESS FOR SADNESS
Our prayer should be for--
I. Proportionate gladness; that our God...
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_So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom._
MAN IMPLORING THE MERCY OF GOD
Moses prays--
I. For a right estimate as to the duration of life. “Teach us to
number our...
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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 90:13 RETURN, that is, come back to us, turn
from your anger (as in Exodus 32:12). IN THE MORNING. Probably
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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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Deuteronomy 2:14; Isaiah 12:1; Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 61:3;