Psalms 90:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. ”

Psalms 90:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the morning it flourisheth - This does not mean that it grows with any special vigor or rapidity in the morning, as if that were illustrative of the rapid growth of the young; but merely that,...
Psalms 90:6 - 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 90:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 90:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. The c...
Psalms 90:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The following is suggested as the most satisfactory rendering of these verses: Time (literally, a year; but the root-idea is the repetition or change of the seasons ) carries them away with i...
Psalms 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ,.... That is, the grass, through the dew that lay all night on it, and by the clear shining of the sun after rain, when it appears in great beauty and v...
Psalms 90:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Ver. 6. In the morning it flourisheth ] So doth man in his prime and vigour, his bones full of marrow,...
Psalms 90:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou carriest them away Namely, mankind, of whom he spake Psalms 90:3 . As with a flood Unexpectedly, violently, and irresistibly. They are as a sleep Short and vain as sleep is, and not minde...
Psalms 90:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Psalms 90:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The whole space of man's life is compared to one day, and his prosperity is confined to a part of that day, and ended in the close of it.
Psalms 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - 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 90:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:2 ; Matthew 6:30 ; Psalms 92:7

Psalms 90:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 90:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 90:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 90:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 90:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge