Psalms 90:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The daysa of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ”

Psalms 90:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The days of our years - Margin, “As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.” Perhaps the language would better be translated: “The days of our years! In them are seventy years;” or,...
Psalms 90:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] (i) fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away....
Psalms 90:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 90:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

our: i.e. Moses, and those of whom he writes. threescore years and ten. This refers to the length of life in the wilderness in the time of Moses, which must have been shortened specially, so tha...
Psalms 90:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. In the days of our years there are threescore years and ten. He again returns to the general doctrine respecting the precariousness of the condition of men, although God may not openly d...
Psalms 90:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Ps...
Psalms 90:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The days of our years are, &c.— If this may be thought too short a term for the general standard of human life in those early ages, as one would infer from hence that Moses could not be the aut...
Psalms 90:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 foursc...
Psalms 90:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Yet is their strength... — The LXX. (and so Vulg.) appear to have had a slightly different reading, which gives much better sense: “Yet their additional years are but labour and sorrow.” The old ma...
Psalms 90:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 90:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 90:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 90:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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: ne...
Psalms 90:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The days of our years are threescore years and ten ,.... In the Hebrew text it is, "the days of our years in them are", c. a which refers either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of th...
Psalms 90:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Ver...
Psalms 90:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The days of our years Of the generality of mankind, in that and all following ages, some few persons excepted, are threescore years and ten Which time the ancient heathen writers also fixed as th...
Psalms 90:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Penitent Submission. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniq...
Psalms 90:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The days of our years; either, 1. Of the Israelites in the desert, who being twenty years old, and some, thirty, some forty, some fifty years old, when they came out of Egypt, and dying in the wi...
Psalms 90:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 90:10 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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 shifti...
Psalms 90:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 90:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 90:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 90:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 90:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 conse...
Psalms 90:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1 ; 2 Samuel 19:35 ; Deuteronomy 34:7 ; Ecclesiastes 12:2-7 ; Genesis 47:9 ; Isaiah 38:12 ; James 4:14 ; Job 14:10 ; Job 24:24 ; Luke 12:20 ; Psalms 78:39
Psalms 90:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Our years — Of the generality of mankind, in that and all following ages, some few persons excepted. Flee — We do not now go to death, as we do from our very birth, but flee swiftly away like a bir...

Psalms 90:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 90:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 90:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 90:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 90:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 90:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 90:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes