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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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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 כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ
כְמֹו ־הֶֽגֶה׃...
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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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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 h...
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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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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 Go...
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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 days H3117 away H6437 (H8804) wrath H5678 finish H3615
(H8765) years H8141 sigh H1899
For - Psalms 78:33
passed - Heb. turned
a tale - Heb. a meditation, Psalms 90:4, Psalms 39:5...
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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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Psalms 39:5; Psalms 78:33; Psalms 90:4...