Read & Study the Bible Online - Bible Portal
G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

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 eternity of god (vv. Psa 90:1-2 ). By this backward method of analysis we gain a conception of the general scheme of the psalm which now enables us to take the three movements in their orderly sequence. The eternity of God is described in three stages. First, as measured by the history of His... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 90:1-17

BOOK IV.— PSS. XC.– CVI. XC. Man’ s Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1-Joshua : . The nothingness of man’ s life, the eternity of God’ s life. Psalms 90:7-2 Samuel : . It is the sinfulness of man which makes his life so short. Psalms 90:11 f. Man’ s lot should teach him reverence and wisdom. Psalms 90:13-Esther : . Prayer for God’ s blessing in the future. Psalms 90:1 . dwelling-place: the thought is beautiful but irrelevant. The Psalmist is speaking of God’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 90:14

Early; speedily or seasonably, before we be utterly consumed. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“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 kernel of the Psalm is the second part, and that the design of the first is to prepare the way for the second, and lay down a basis on which it may rest. For תְּפִלָּה denotes only prayer in the proper sense, supplicatory prayer.” On תְּפּלָּה as used hero Fuerst says: “תְפִלָּה is a peculiar kind of song in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 90:0 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 shifting and inconstant character of our earthly state by the single word "dwelling-place." Here God's eternity opens itself to our needs. II. A correct view of the eternity of God conveys warning as well as comfort. (1) The eternal power of God convicts us of helplessness. (2) The eternal being of God... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:7-17

Psalms 90:7-17 I. In this passage we find: (1) an exercise of penitential faith or believing repentance; (2) an exercise of believing appropriation and assurance. II. The three petitions in Psalms 90:16 and Psalms 90:17 point to work or entering into work as being the peaceable fruit of righteousness. (1) The Lord's work comes first. These praying men of God, penitent and believing, ask Him to give them and their children a sight of that and an insight into its glory. (2) The second petition is... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 90:14

DISCOURSE: 652SATISFACTION IN GOD ALONEPsalms 90:14. O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!WE are told, on most unquestionable authority, that “godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come [Note: 1 Timothy 4:8.].” We are further assured, that “its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace [Note: Proverbs 3:17.].” This was the conviction of Moses, when he penned this... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 90:1-17 is a psalm of Moses. Now Moses was also a writer and he wrote psalms and songs, and this is one of the psalms of Moses.LORD [or Jehovah], thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God ( Psalms 90:1-2 ).Declaring the eternal nature of God. Before the world ever existed, from everlasting to everlasting.The word everlasting is an... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 90:1-17

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 off in the desert. See note on Psalms 90:10. Psalms 90:1 . Our dwelling-place, עון on, or as the Gothic, wone, to dwell, to inhabit, to co-inhabit: the reference is to the mercyseat. The LXX, Vulgate, and other Versions read, “place of defence,” or refuge; for in God is our refuge, even... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 90:1-17

Psalms 90:1-17Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.The prayer of MosesThe propriety of the title is confirmed by the psalm’s unique simplicity and grandeur; its appropriateness to his times and circumstances at the close of the error in the wilderness; its resemblance to the law in urging the connection between sin and death; its similarity of diction to the poetical portions of the Pentateuch (Exodus 15:1-27; Deuteronomy 32:1-52; Deuteronomy 33:1-29), without the... read more

Group of Brands