Psalms 90:4

a thousand years. Compare 2 Peter 3:8.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 90:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For a thousand years in thy sight - Hebrew, “In thy eyes;” that is, It so appears to thee - or, a thousand years so seem to thee, however long th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(e) For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. (e) Though man thinks his life is long,...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. For a thousand years in thy sight - As if he...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. For a thousand years in thy sight are bu...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A thousand years. — This verse, which, when Peter II. was written (see New Testament Commentary ), had already begun to receive an arithmetical tr...
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 a...
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...
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 f...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nothing within the compass of words can more strongly define the vast and immeasurable distance between the eternity of Jehovah and the vapourish lif...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday ,.... Which may be said to obviate the difficulty in man's return, or resurrection, from the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. Ver. 4. For a thousand years in thy sight...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For a thousand years If we should now live so long, (as some of our progenitors nearly did,) in thy sight In thy account, and therefore in truth;...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Care of His People; Frailty of Human Life. A Prayer of Moses the man...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A thousand years, if we should now live so long, as some of our progenitors well nigh did. As he compared man's duration with God's in respect of i...
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...
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...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» It is well to know the author, because it helps you to an understanding of the psalm. Remember that Moses lived...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» I think this Psalm has been very much misunderstood, because the title has been forgotten. It is not a Psalm for...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:1 is entitled «A Prayer of Moses the man of God,» and it furnishes a suitable prayer for every man of God. Any men of God who have had ex...
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 thi...
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 s...
The Biblical Illustrator

For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. God’s estimate of time 1. Let us set this...
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 indee...
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 I...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, the eternal God, for whom, strictly speaking, time does not exist, regards th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:8 ; Luke 12:38 ; Matthew 14:25 ; Matthew 24:43
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Past — Indeed time seems long when it is to come, but when it is past, very short and contemptible. A watch — Which lasted but three or four hours....

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 90:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 90:4