“ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. ”
Thou turnest man to destruction - In contradistinction from his own unchangeableness and eternity. Man passes away; God continues ever the same. The word rendered “destruction” - דכא dakkâ'...
Thou (d) turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. (d) Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man's life moves God to pity.
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...
man . mortal man. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. Return. Either to dust; or, in resurrection. children of men . sons of Adam (singular) See App-14.
3 Thou shalt turn man to destruction. Moses, in the first place, mentions how frail and transitory is the life of man, and bewails its miseries. This he does, not for the purpose of quarrell...
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou turnest man to destruction - Literally, Thou shalt turn dying man, אנוש enosh, to the small dust, דכא dacca but thou wilt...
Thou turnest man to destruction— The sacred writer first puts the people in mind of the eternity of God, the never-failing refuge of his faithful servants in all ages; and this in a very noble stra...
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou turnest man to destruction - literally, to the state of being crushed to pieces х dakaa' ( H1793 )] Genesis...
Thou turnest... — Probably we must render, Thou turnest man to dust; and sayest, Turn, sons of Adam — i.e., one generation dies and another succeeds (see Psalms 104:29-30 ), the continuance of...
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...
Nothing within the compass of words can more strongly define the vast and immeasurable distance between the eternity of Jehovah and the vapourish life of man, than what these few verses express. The...
Thou turnest man to destruction ,.... Or to death, as the Targum, which is the destruction of man; not an annihilation of body or soul, but a dissolution of the union between them; the words may be...
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Ver. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction ] Ad minutissimum quiddam, so Beza rendereth it, to a very small business, to d...
Thou turnest man to destruction But as for man, his case is far otherwise; his time is short; and though he was made by thee happy and immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him mortal and miser...
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...
But as for man, his case is far otherwise, his time is short; and though he was made by thee a happy creature, and should have been immortal, yet upon and for his sin thou didst make him mortal and m...
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 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...
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ; Genesis 3:19 ; Genesis 6:6 ; Genesis 6:7 ; Job 12:10 ; Job 34:14 ; Job 34:15 ; Numbers 14:35 ; Psalms 104:29 ; Psalms 146:4
Turnedst — But as for man, his case is far otherwise, though he was made by thee happy. and immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him mortal and miserable. Saidst — Didst pronounce that sad sen...