Psalms 90:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. ”

Psalms 90:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? - Who can measure it, or take a correct estimate of it, as it is manifest in cutting down the race of people? If the removal of people by death is to be trac...
Psalms 90:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(k) Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath. (k) If man's life for the shortness of it is miserable, it is even more so if your wrath is on it, as they wh...
Psalms 90:11 - 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 90:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Who... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. power. Hebrew. 'oz. Spelled with Ayin (') here, but. az (with Aleph) in Psalms 76:7 . See note on Isaiah 11:4 .
Psalms 90:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

11. Who knoweth, the power of thy anger? Moses again returns to speak of the peculiar afflictions of the Israelites; for he had also on this occasion complained before of the common frailty...
Psalms 90:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 651 GOD’S ANGER A REASON FOR TURNING TO HIM Psalms 90:11-12 . Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that w...
Psalms 90:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Who knoweth the power of thine angers - The afflictions of this life are not to be compared to the miseries which...
Psalms 90:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? &c.— i.e. "In proportion to the fear and reverence which is due to thee, as the great Lord and Sovereign of the world; so may the transgressors of thy law...
Psalms 90:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. -The Second part, First division. The mysterious relation of death to sin, as its wages, is little, if at all...
Psalms 90:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who knoweth... — Better, Who regardeth Thine anger And — in a measure due to reverence — Thy wrath? Who (no doubt with thought of Israel’s enemies) has that just terror of Thy wrath which a tr...
Psalms 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger ?.... Expressed in his judgments on men: as the drowning of the old world, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the consumption of the Israelites in the wilderness...
Psalms 90:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath. Ver. 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? ] None doth, since it is such as no man can either avoid or ab...
Psalms 90:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? The greatness, and force, and dreadful effects of thine anger, conceived against the sons of men, and in particular against thine own people, for their sins? F...
Psalms 90:11 - 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 90:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Who knoweth? few or none sufficiently apprehend it, or stedfastly believe it, or duly consider it, or are rightly affected with it. For all these things are comprehended under this word knoweth ....
Psalms 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - 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 90:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:11 ; Deuteronomy 28:59 ; Deuteronomy 29:20-29 ; Isaiah 33:14 ; Leviticus 26:18 ; Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:24 ; Leviticus 26:28 ; Luke 12:5 ; Nahum 1:6 ; Revelation 6:...
Psalms 90:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thy fear — According to the fear of thee; according to that fear which sinful men have of a just God. So — It bears full proportion to it, nay indeed doth far exceed it.

Psalms 90:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 90:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 90:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 90:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 90:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 90:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 90:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 90:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes