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IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH - This does not mean that it grows with
any special vigor or rapidity in the morning, as if that were
illustrative of the rapid growth of the young; but merely that, in
f...
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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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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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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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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is
cut down, and withereth.
IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH, AND GROWETH UP; IN THE EVENING IT IS
CUT DOWN, AND WITHERETH. The contra...
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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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The following is suggested as the most satisfactory rendering of these
verses: _Time_ (literally, a _year;_ but the root-idea is the
_repetition_ or _change of the seasons_)_ carries them away with it...
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בַּ֭ † בֹּקֶר יָצִ֣יץ וְ חָלָ֑ף לָ֝ †
עֶ֗רֶב יְמֹולֵ֥ל וְ יָבֵֽשׁ׃...
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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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Day. Neither open attacks, nor unforeseen accidents prevail. (Calmet)
--- Business. Hebrew dabar, "thing," ver. 3., "the pestilence." (St.
Jerome) (Haydock) --- The Hebrews suppose, that one angel pre...
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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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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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IN THE MORNING IT FLOURISHETH AND GROWETH UP,.... That is, the grass,
through the dew that lay all night on it, and by the clear shining of
the sun after rain, when it appears in great beauty and verd...
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is
cut down, and withereth.
Ver. 6. _In the morning it flourisheth_] So doth man in his prime and
vigour, his bones full of marrow, hi...
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_Thou carriest them away_ Namely, mankind, of whom he spake Psalms
90:3. _As with a flood_ Unexpectedly, violently, and irresistibly.
_They are as a sleep_ Short and vain as sleep is, and not minded t...
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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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The whole space of man's life is compared to one day, and his
prosperity is confined to a part of that day, and ended in the close
of it....
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Psalms 90:6 morning H1242 flourishes H6692 (H8686) up H2498 (H8804)
evening H6153 down H4135 (H8787) withers H3001 (H8804)
Psalms 92:7; Job 14:2; Matthew 6:30...
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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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Job 14:2; Matthew 6:30; Psalms 92:7...