(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 fear you only know.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
מִֽי ־יֹ֭ודֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝ כְ יִרְאָתְך
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Psalms 90:11 knows H3045 (H8802) power H5797 anger H639 fear H3374 wrath H5678 Leviticu
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
«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...
«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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah 33:14;...
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....