“ Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. ”
Return, O Lord - Come back to thy people; show mercy by sparing them. It would seem probable from this that the psalm was composed in a time of pestilence, or raging sickness, which threatened to...
Return, O LORD, (m) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. (m) Meaning, will you be angry?
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...
Return. Same word as Psalms 90:3 . LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. how long. Supply Ellipsis: "how long [shall we wait for Thy return]? "
13. Return, O Jehovah! how long? After having spoken in the language of complaint, Moses adds a prayer, That God, who had not ceased for a long time severely to punish his people, would at l...
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Return, O Lord, how long? - Wilt thou continue angry with us for ever? Let it repent thee - הנחם hinnachem, be comforted, re...
Return, O Lord! how long— Return, O Lord! how long [ will it be first ] ? Mudge: giving rather the meaning, than the emphatical energy of the original; which is best expressed by the abruptness...
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. -The Second division of the Second part. Prayer for God's mercy as the source to us of joy, and of the establishment o...
Return. — Better, turn, either from anger ( Exodus 32:12 ), or merely as in Psalms 6:4 , “turn to thy servant.” Plainly we have here the experience of some particular epoch, and a prayer for Is...
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...
These verses contain the sanctified use of the foregoing meditations. If such be the transitory state of man upon earth, Lord cause thy people to improve these appointments of thine, to thy glory, an...
Return, O Lord ,.... Either from the fierceness of thine anger, according to Aben Ezra and Jarchi; of which complaint is made, Psalms 90:7 , or unto us, from whom he had departed; for though God i...
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Ver. 13. Let it repent thee ] Or, comfort thou thy servants.
Return, O Lord To us in mercy. How long? Understand, wilt thou be angry? Or, will it be ere thou return to us? Let it repent thee , &c. Of thy severe proceedings against us. O satisfy us...
Prayers for Mercy. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O L OR...
Return, O Lord, to us in mercy; for thou seemest to have forsaken us and cast us off. How long; understand, wilt thou be angry ; or, will it be ere thou return to us ? Concerning thy servants...
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...
repent ( See Scofield) - ( Zechariah 8:14 ).
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...
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...
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...
Amos 7:3 ; Amos 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 32:36 ; Exodus 32:14 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Jeremiah 12:15 ; Joel 2:13 ; Joel 2:14 ; Jonah 3:9 ; Psalms 6:4 ; Psalms 80:14 ; Psalms 106:45 ; Psalms 135:14 ; Ps...
Return — To us in mercy. How long — Will it be before thou return to us? Repent thee — Of thy severe proceedings against us.