Psalms 90:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. ”

Psalms 90:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath - Margin, “turned.” The Hebrew word - פנה pânâh - means to “turn;” then, to turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or...
Psalms 90:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we (h) spend our years as a tale [that is told]. (h) Our days are not only short but miserable as our sins daily provoke your wrath.
Psalms 90:9 - 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 90:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

are passed away . have declined, or ended. a tale that is told . a thought, or. sigh.
Psalms 90:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. For all our days are passed away in thy indignation. This might be viewed as a general confirmation of the preceding sentence, That the whole course of man’s life is suddenly brought to a...
Psalms 90:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told . Psalms 90:9 We spend our years as a tale - The Vulgate has: Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur; "Our...
Psalms 90:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

We spend our years as a tale that is told— Or, We end our years as a thought.
Psalms 90:9 - 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 90:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Are passed away. — Better, are declining. A tale. — Rather, a murmur. (See Note, Psalms 1:2 .) Probably, from the parallelism with wrath, a moan of sadness. So in Ezekiel 2:10 , “a sound...
Psalms 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath ,.... The life of man is rather measured by days than by months or years; and these are but few, which pass away or "decline" g as the day does towards...
Psalms 90:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. Ver. 9. For all our days are passed away ] Heb. do turn away the face. See Psalms 90:3 . We spend o...
Psalms 90:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

We are consumed by thine anger Caused by our sinful state and lives. Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might do by the course of nature. And by thy wrath are we troubled The generatio...
Psalms 90:9 - 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 90:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Are passed away; or, turn away themselves or their face from us. They do not continue with us, but quickly turn their backs upon us, and leave us. As a tale that is told; which may a little a...
Psalms 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - 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 90:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 78:33 ; Psalms 90:4

Psalms 90:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 90:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 90:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 90:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 90:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 90:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge