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Verse Psalms 90:9. _WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE_] The _Vulgate_ has:
Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur; "Our years pass away like those
of the spider." Our _plans_ and _operations_ are like the...
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FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH - Margin, “turned.”
The Hebrew word - פנה _pânâh_ - means to “turn;” then, to
turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or
depart....
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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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ARE PASSED AWAY. have declined, or ended.
A TALE THAT IS TOLD. a thought, or. sigh....
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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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_are passed away_ Lit. _turn_or _decline_towards evening (Jeremiah
6:4). We are "a generation of thy wrath" (Jeremiah 7:29). Our life is
drawing to a close under a cloud; there is no sign of -light at...
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WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD— Or, _We end our years as
a thought._...
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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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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...
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90:9 thought. (f-17) Or 'sigh.'...
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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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ARE PASSED AWAY. — Better, _are declining._
A TALE. — Rather, _a murmur._ (See Note, Psalms 1:2.) Probably, from
the parallelism with _wrath,_ a moan of sadness. So in Ezekiel 2:10,
“a sound of woe.”...
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כִּ֣י כָל ־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְ
עֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כ
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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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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we (h) spend our years
as a tale [that is told].
(h) Our days are not only short but miserable as our sins daily
provoke your wrath....
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Because. Saying, Thou, &c. (Worthington; ver. 1.) (Calmet) --- High.
Hebrew helyon is a title of God, (Calmet) not the adjective to refuge,
(Berthier) as Chaldean, Aquila, &c., have taken it. "Thou ha...
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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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9._For all our days are passed away in thy indignation. _This might be
viewed as a general confirmation of the preceding sentence, That the
whole course of man’s life is suddenly brought to an end, as...
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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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FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH,.... The life of man is
rather measured by days than by months or years; and these are but
few, which pass away or "decline" g as the day does towards the...
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale [that is told].
Ver. 9. _For all our days are passed away_] Heb. do turn away the
face. See Psalms 90:3 .
_ We spend our y...
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_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...
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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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For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath, they are diminished.
they vanish, because the anger of the Lord is manifested upon the
sins; WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD, like a murmuring,...
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PASSED AWAY:
_ Heb._ turned away
AS A TALE THAT IS OLD...
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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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ARE PASSED AWAY; or, _turn away themselves_ or _their face_ from us.
They do not continue with us, but quickly turn their backs upon us,
and leave us. AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD; which may a little affect...
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Psalms 90:9
No part of the ancient Scriptures is less obsolete than this Psalm. It
is a picture still true to nature. Human life, viewed generally, has
not since brightened up into a scene of joy and...
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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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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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_We spend our years as a tale that is told._
LIFE--A TALE
Assuming this version to give the true idea of the author, we have
here three thoughts,
1. Significance. A tale has some meaning; is intend...
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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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Psalms 39:5; Psalms 78:33; Psalms 90:4...