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Verse Psalms 90:3. _THOU TURNEST MAN TO DESTRUCTION_] Literally, Thou
shalt turn dying man, אנוש _enosh_, to the small dust, דכא
_dacca_ but thou wilt say, Return, ye children of Adam. This appears
to...
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THOU TURNEST MAN TO DESTRUCTION - In contradistinction from his own
unchangeableness and eternity. Man passes away; God continues ever the
same. The word rendered “destruction” - דכא _dakkâ'_ - means...
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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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MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14.
RETURN. Either to dust; or, in resurrection.
CHILDREN OF MEN. sons of Adam (singular) See App-14....
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The Psalmist's confession that God is Israel's refuge; that He alone
is the Eternal; that He is the sovereign Disposer of human life....
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THOU TURNEST MAN TO DESTRUCTION— The sacred writer first puts the
people in mind of the eternity of God, the never-failing refuge of his
faithful servants in all ages; and this in a very noble strain...
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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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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of
men.
THOU TURNEST MAN TO DESTRUCTION - literally, to the state of being
crushed to pieces [ dakaa' (H1793)] Genesis 3:19 is allu...
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90:3 dust, (e-8) Lit. 'to crumbling.'...
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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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THOU TURNEST... — Probably we must render, _Thou turnest man to
dust; and sayest, Turn, sons of Adam_ — _i.e.,_ one generation dies
and another succeeds (see Psalms 104:29), the continuance of the rac...
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תָּשֵׁ֣ב אֱ֭נֹושׁ עַד ־דַּכָּ֑א וַ֝
תֹּ֗אמֶר שׁ֣וּבוּ בְנֵי ־אָדָֽם׃...
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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 str...
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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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Thou (d) turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
of men.
(d) Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man's life moves
God to pity....
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_Delivered me. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shall deliver thee." Yet the
Alexandrian copy has me. (Haydock) --- The psalmist addresses his own
soul. (Berthier) --- Word, verbo: we sometimes find "sword," p...
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Nothing within the compass of words can more strongly define the vast
and immeasurable distance between the eternity of Jehovah and the
vapourish life of man, than what these few verses express. The e...
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3_Thou shalt turn man to destruction. _Moses, in the first place,
mentions how frail and transitory is the life of man, and bewails its
miseries. This he does, not for the purpose of quarrelling with...
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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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THOU TURNEST MAN TO DESTRUCTION,.... Or to death, as the Targum, which
is the destruction of man; not an annihilation of body or soul, but a
dissolution of the union between them; the words may be ren...
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_Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of
men._
Ver. 3. _Thou turnest man to destruction_] _Ad minutissimum quiddam,_
so Beza rendereth it, to a very small business, to dus...
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_Thou turnest man to destruction_ But as for man, his case is far
otherwise; his time is short; and though he was made by thee happy and
immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him mortal and misera...
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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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1-6 It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on
Israel in the wilderness, Psalms 90:14. The favour and protection of
God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evi...
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But as for man, his case is far otherwise, his time is short; and
though he was made by thee a happy creature, and should have been
immortal, yet upon and for his sin thou didst make him mortal and
mi...
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Psalms 90:3 turn H7725 (H8686) man H582 destruction H1793 say H559
(H8799) Return H7725 (H8798) children H1121 men H120
Thou - Psalms 104:29, Psalms 146:4; Genesis 3:19, Genesis 6:6-7;
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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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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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_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 ti...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to
some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13, Psalms 90:15). It asks
God to have pity on his people and bless them. The title credits t...
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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 kerne...
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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 D...
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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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Ecclesiastes 12:7; Genesis 3:19; Genesis 6:6; Genesis 6:7; Job 12:10;
Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Numbers 14:35; Psalms 104:29; Psalms 146:4...
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Turnedst — But as for man, his case is far otherwise, though he was
made by thee happy. and immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him
mortal and miserable. Saidst — Didst pronounce that sad senten...