Psalms 90:3

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

Related Commentaries of Psalms 90:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou turnest man to destruction - In contradistinction from his own unchangeableness and eternity. Man passes away; God continues ever the same....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 Go...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

man . mortal man. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. Return. Either to dust; or, in resurrection. children of men . sons of Adam (singular) See App-14....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 miser...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou turnest man to destruction - Literally, Thou shalt turn dying man, אנוש...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou turnest man to destruction - literally, to the state of being c...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou turnest... — Probably we must render, Thou turnest man to dust; and sayest, Turn, sons of Adam — i.e., one generation dies and another suc...
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

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 dissol...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Ver. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction ] Ad minutissimum quiddam, so...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, ye...
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

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 upo...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:3 Two of the greatest lessons which Christ came to teach us were the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Look at man in himsel...
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

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Man’s thoughts of man I wish to point out our duty to the world of hum...
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

Thou turnest man to destruction, changing the proud strength and beauty of their bodies into crushed particles, into dust, and sayest, Return, ye ch...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 an...

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 90:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 90:3