“ Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. ”
Lord - Not יהוה Yahweh here, but אדני 'Adonāy . The word is properly rendered “Lord,” but it is a term which is often applied to God. It indicates, however, nothing in regard to his chara...
"A Prayer of Moses (a) the man of God." Lord, thou hast been our (b) dwelling place in all generations. (a) Thus the Scripture refers to the prophets. (b) You have been as a house and defence to us...
BOOK IV. PSS. XC.- CVI. XC. Man's Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1-6 . The nothingness of man's life, the eternity of God's life. Psalms 90:7-10 . It is the sinf...
Title.. Prayer. Hebrew. Tephillah. See App-63. Moses: the man of the wilderness. Hence the wilderness, and works of creation, referred to. the man of God. See App-49. There are seven spec...
1 O Lord! thou hast been our dwelling-place. In separating the seed of Abraham by special privilege from the rest of the human family, the Psalmist magnifies the grace of adoption, by which...
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Lord, thou hast been our dwellingplace - מעון maon; but instead of this several MSS. have מעוז maoz, "pla...
Moses, setting forth God's providence, complaineth of human fragility, divine chastisements, and brevity of life: he prayeth for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence. A...
LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Psalms 90:1-17 .-A meditation: the Lord our dwelling-place, the counterpoise to our transitory life: death, the wages of sin ( Psal...
Dwelling place. — LXX. and Vulg., “refuse,” possibly reading maôz (as in Psalms 37:39 ) instead of maôn. So some MSS. But Deuteronomy 33:17 has the feminine of this latter word, and the idea...
Psalms 90:1-17 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 fe...
the Message of the Passing Years Psalms 90:1-17 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 stam...
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 e...
CONTENTS We cannot be at a loss to form a proper idea of the antiquity of this Psalm; for the title shows that Moses was the penman of it. Perhaps it was written at the time when the Lord determined...
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations ,.... Even when they had no certain dwelling place in the world; so their ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, dwelt in tabernacles in the...
Psalms 90:1 «A Prayer of Moses the man of God. » Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. A Prayer of Moses ] Made by him, belike, when he saw the carcases of the people fall...
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place , &c. Although we and our fathers, for some generations, have had no fixed habitation, but have been strangers in a land that was not ours , and afflic...
God's Care of His People; Frailty of Human Life. A Prayer of Moses the man of God. 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelli...
PSALM 90 Who, considering that terrible but righteous sentence of God concerning the cutting off all that sinful generation in the wilderness, of which see Num 14 , takes that occasion to publish...
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 kern...
Psalms 90:1 This is, beyond fair doubt, the oldest Psalm in the whole Psalter. It is the work, not of David, but, as the inscription tells us in the Bible version, of Moses. Especially like Moses...
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 ge...
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...
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...
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 ti...
Lord, the Majestic, the All-powerful, Thou hast been our Dwelling-place, a safe Habitation of refuge, in all generations, from one generation to the next, throughout the ages, the Messianic idea...
1 John 4:16 ; 1 Kings 13:1 ; 1 Timothy 6:11 ; Deuteronomy 33:1 ; Deuteronomy 33:27 ; Exodus 33:14-19 ; Ezekiel 11:16 ; Isaiah 8:14 ; John 6:56 ; Numbers 14:45 ; Psalms 71:3 ; Psalms 89:1...
Dwelling place — Although we and our fathers, for some generations, have had no fixed habitation, yet thou hast been instead of a dwelling — place to us, by thy watchful and gracious providence. An...