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Verse Psalms 90:17. _AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD_] Let us have thy
_presence, blessing_, and _approbation_, as our fathers had.
_ESTABLISH THOU THE WORK OF OUR HANDS_] This is supposed, we have
a...
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AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD OUR GOD BE UPON US - The word
translated “beauty” - נעם _nô‛am_ - means properly
“pleasantness;” then, beauty, splendor; then grace or layout. The
Septuagint renders it...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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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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_the beauty_ Or, _pleasantness_: the gracious kindliness of Jehovah.
Cp. Psalms 27:4; Proverbs 3:17.
_the work of our hands_ A phrase characteristic of Deuteronomy, where
it occurs seven times. All t...
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DISCOURSE: 653
THE BEAUTY OF JEHOVAH IMPARTED TO HIS PEOPLE
Psalms 90:17. _Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us!_
IT is pleasing to think that in every age the Lord has many “hidden
ones:” e...
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AND LET THE BEAUTY, &C.— _Let the countenance of the Lord our God
smile upon me; and prosper thou the work of our hands._ Green. Bishop
Hare and Houbigant have observed, that the four words at the end...
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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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90:17 beauty (l-4) See Psalms 27:4 ....
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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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BEAUTY. — Or, _pleasantness._ The Hebrew word, like the Greek
χάρις_,_ and our “grace,” seems to combine the ideas of
“beauty” and “favour.”...
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וִ יהִ֤י ׀ נֹ֤עַם אֲדֹנָ֥י
אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עָ֫לֵ֥ינוּ...
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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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And let the (p) beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and (q)
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our
hands establish thou it.
(p) Meaning, that is was obscured when he ce...
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PSALM XC. (QUI HABITAT.)
The just is secure under the protection of God....
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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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REFLECTIONS
READER, have you ever contemplated, in the point of view this blessed
Psalm represents it, the dying circumstances of a perishing world?
There is nothing which, under grace, can more effec...
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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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AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD OUR GOD BE UPON US,.... Either the
grace and favour of God, his gracious presence vouchsafed in his
ordinances, which makes his tabernacles amiable and lovely, and his
w...
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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou
the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish
thou it.
Ver. 17. _And let the beauty of the Lord, &c._] _i.e...
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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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And let the beauty of the Lord, our God, the sweet favor of the
Majestic and All-powerful, who is at the same time the God of our
salvation, BE UPON US, resting upon the believers throughout their
liv...
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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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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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THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD, i.e. his favourable countenance, and gracious
influence, and glorious presence. UPON US; or, _in us_. Do not only
work for us, but in us. And because the glorious work of thy h...
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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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Psalms 90:16
I. The prayer of the Psalmist is not the prayer of the wearied,
disappointed prophet, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life,"
but the prayer of one who looks forward, of one who w...
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Psalms 90:17
I. What is the beauty of God? The excellence of His character. The
meaning of all beauty is to image the holiness and excellence of God.
The perception of beauty has been given us not, as...
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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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_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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_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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_Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us._
THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD
We all feel moral beauty to be the highest. Much as we may admire the
delicate touches of light and shade in a landscape, the r...
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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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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 90:16 LET YOUR WORK BE SHOWN, that is, display
your love toward your people in great deeds of power that enable them
to flourish. TO THEIR CHILDREN. God made his covenant with Abr...
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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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1 Corinthians 3:7; 1 John 3:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Thessalonians
2:16;...
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The beauty — His gracious influence, and glorious presence. In us
— Do not only work for us, but in us,...