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Verse Psalms 90:11. _WHO KNOWETH THE POWER OF THINE ANGER?_] The
afflictions of _this life_ are not to be compared to the _miseries_
which await them who live and die without being reconciled to God,...
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WHO KNOWETH THE POWER OF THINE ANGER? - Who can measure it, or take a
correct estimate of it, as it is manifest in cutting down the race of
people? If the removal of people by death is to be traced to...
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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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WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
POWER. Hebrew. _'oz._ Spelled with Ayin (') here, but. _az_ (with
Aleph) in Psalms 76:7. See note on Isaiah 11:4....
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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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Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee? (R.V.)
Who understands or lays to heart the intensity of God's wrath against
sin so as to fear Him du...
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DISCOURSE: 651
GOD’S ANGER A REASON FOR TURNING TO HIM
Psalms 90:11. _Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to
thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may
ap...
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WHO KNOWETH THE POWER OF THINE ANGER? &C.— i.e. "In proportion to
the fear and reverence which is due to thee, as the great Lord and
Sovereign of the world; so may the transgressors of thy law expect...
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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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Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so
is thy wrath.
-The Second part, First division. The mysterious relation of death to
sin, as its wages, is little, if at all, kno...
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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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WHO KNOWETH... — Better,
Who regardeth Thine anger
And — in a measure due to reverence — Thy wrath?
_Who_ (no doubt with thought of Israel’s enemies) _has that just
terror of Thy wrath which a truly...
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מִֽי ־יֹ֭ודֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝ כְ
יִרְאָתְך
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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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(k) Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,
[so is] thy wrath.
(k) If man's life for the shortness of it is miserable, it is even
more so if your wrath is on it, as they who...
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Angels. Many seem to be assigned to the just, to whom St. Hilary, &c.,
would restrain this privilege. But it is more generally believed, that
each person has an angel guardian. This was the opinion ev...
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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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11._Who knoweth, the power of thy anger? _Moses again returns to speak
of the peculiar afflictions of the Israelites; for he had also on this
occasion complained before of the common frailty and miser...
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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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WHO KNOWETH THE POWER OF THINE ANGER?.... Expressed in his judgments
on men: as the drowning of the old world, the burning of Sodom and
Gomorrah, the consumption of the Israelites in the wilderness; o...
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_Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so
is] thy wrath._
Ver. 11. _Who knoweth the power of thine anger?_] None doth, since it
is such as no man can either avoid or abid...
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_Who knoweth the power of thine anger?_ The greatness, and force, and
dreadful effects of thine anger, conceived against the sons of men,
and in particular against thine own people, for their sins? Fe...
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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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Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? this being as immeasurable as
God Himself. EVEN ACCORDING TO THY FEAR, SO IS THY WRATH, that is, Who
fears the wrath of God in the proper measure? Who realizes wh...
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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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WHO KNOWETH? few or none sufficiently apprehend it, or stedfastly
believe it, or duly consider it, or are rightly affected with it. For
all these things are comprehended under this word _knoweth_. THE...
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Psalms 90:11
I. When I consider the difficulties which lie in the way of our
measuring the anger of God, I conclude that it is chiefly His steady
and orderly goodness which has thrust His displeasure...
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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 90:7
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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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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_Who knoweth the power of Thine anger?_
even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath.
THE POWER OF GOD’S ANGER
I. When I consider the difficulties which lie in the way of our
measuring the power of a...
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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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2 Corinthians 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah
33:14;...
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Thy fear — According to the fear of thee; according to that fear
which sinful men have of a just God. So — It bears full proportion
to it, nay indeed doth far exceed it....