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THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS - Margin, “As for the days of our years, in
them are seventy years.” Perhaps the language would better be
translated: “The days of our years! In them are seventy years;”
or, they...
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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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OUR: i.e. Moses, and those of whom he writes.
THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN. This refers to the length of life in the
wilderness in the time of Moses, which must have been shortened
specially, so that the...
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The punctuation of A.V. is misleading. Render:
The days of our years therein are threescore years and ten,
And if we be of much strength, fourscore years:
And their pride is but travail and misery,...
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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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THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE, &C.— If this may be thought too short a
term for the general standard of human life in those early ages, as
one would infer from hence that Moses could not be the author of...
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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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90:10 vanity, (g-27) These words are rendered 'mischief and iniquity,'
when presented actively. see Job 4:8 ; Psalms 55:10 ....
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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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YET IS THEIR STRENGTH... — The LXX. (and so Vulg.) appear to have
had a slightly different reading, which gives much better sense:
“Yet their additional years are but labour and sorrow.” The old
man h...
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יְמֵֽי ־שְׁנֹותֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם
שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְ...
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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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The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason
of strength [they be] (i) fourscore years, yet [is] their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
...
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_Scourge. Aquila has Greek: Aphe, "the leprosy," (Calmet) or any
stroke of distress. (Haydock) --- What the saints have suffered were
not real evils, and they will be amply rewarded in heaven. They ne...
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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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10._In the days of our years there are threescore years and ten. _He
again returns to the general doctrine respecting the precariousness of
the condition of men, although God may not openly display hi...
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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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THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN,.... In the Hebrew
text it is, "the days of our years in them are", c. a which refers
either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of the
I...
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The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason
of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Ver....
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Psa. 90:10. Bedford's Scripture Chronology, p. 395. When God had
positively declared that the Israelites should wander forty years in
the wilderness, and that all of them except Joshua and Caleb shoul...
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_The days of our years_ Of the generality of mankind, in that and all
following ages, some few persons excepted, _are threescore years and
ten_ Which time the ancient heathen writers also fixed as the...
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten, literally, "The
days of our years in them seventy years," not worth mentioning, an
insignificant sum; AND IF BY REASON OF STRENGTH, that is, if a ma...
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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten:
_ Heb._ As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years...
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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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THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS; either,
1. Of the Israelites in the desert, who being twenty years old, and
some, thirty, some forty, some fifty years old, when they came out of
Egypt, and dying in the wilder...
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Psalms 90:10 days H3117 lives H8141 seventy H7657 years H8141 strength
H1369 eighty H8084 years H8141 boast H7296 l
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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 90:10
It is a paradox, and yet, like many other paradoxes, a truism also, to
say that death generally alters, sometimes reverses, the whole
estimate of a life. It will scarcely be doubted that...
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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.» 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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«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. 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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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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_The days of our years are threescore years and ten._
THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS
I. Life’s earthly limit. “Threescore years and ten.”
1. How long when viewed in the light of time--when compared with the...
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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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1 Kings 1:1; 2 Samuel 19:35; Deuteronomy 34:7; Ecclesiastes 12:2;...
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Our years — Of the generality of mankind, in that and all following
ages, some few persons excepted. Flee — We do not now go to death,
as we do from our very birth, but flee swiftly away like a bird,...