Psalm 90:5-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:1-6

This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses. Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses's time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord. Moses taught the people of Israel to pray, and put words into their mouths which they might make use of in turning to the Lord. Moses is here called the man of God, because he was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:7-11

Moses had, in the Ps. 90:1-6, lamented the frailty of human life in general; the children of men are as a sleep and as the grass. But here he teaches the people of Israel to confess before God that righteous sentence of death which they were under in a special manner, and which by their sins they had brought upon themselves. Their share in the common lot of mortality was not enough, but they are, and must live and die, under peculiar tokens of God's displeasure. Here they speak of themselves:... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:12-17

These are the petitions of this prayer, grounded upon the foregoing meditations and acknowledgments. Isa. any afflicted? Let him learn thus to pray. Four things they are here directed to pray for:? I. For a sanctified use of the sad dispensation they were now under. Being condemned to have our days shortened, ?Lord, teach us to number our days (Ps. 90:12); Lord, give us grace duly to consider how few they are, and how little a while we have to live in this world.? Note, 1. It is an excellent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:5

Thou carriest them away as with a flood ,.... As the whole world of the ungodly were with the deluge, to which perhaps the allusion is; the phrase is expressive of death; so the Targum, "if they are not converted, thou wilt bring death upon them;' the swiftness of time is aptly signified by the flowing gliding stream of a flood, by the rolling billows and waves of it; so one hour, one day, one month, one year, roll on after another: moreover, the suddenness of death may be here intended,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:6

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 verdure; so man in the morning of his youth looks gay and beautiful, grows in the stature and strength of his body, and in the endowments of his mind; and it may be also in riches and wealth; it is well if he grows in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ: in the evening it is cut down, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by thine anger ,.... Kimchi applies this to the Jews in captivity; but it is to be understood of the Israelites in the wilderness, who are here introduced by Moses as owning and acknowledging that they were wasting and consuming there, as it was threatened they should; and that as an effect of the divine anger and displeasure occasioned by their sins; see Numbers 14:33 . Death is a consumption of the body; in the grave worms destroy the flesh and skin, and the reins of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:8

Thou hast set our sins before thee ,.... The cause of all trouble, consumption, and death; these are before the Lord, as the evidence, according to which he as a righteous Judge proceeds; this is opposed to the pardon of sin, which is expressed by a casting it behind his back, Isaiah 38:17 , our secret sins in the light of thy countenance ; the Targum and Jarchi interpret it of the sins of youth; the word is in the singular number, and may be rendered, "our secret sin" F6 עלמנו ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:9

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" F7 פנו "declinaverunt", Pagninus, Montanus; "declinant", Munster, Muis. as the day does towards the evening; see Jeremiah 6:4 or "turn away their face", as the word F8 "Deflectunt faciem", Gejerus, so Ainsworth. may be rendered: they turn their backs upon us, and not the face to us; so that it is a hard... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten ,.... In the Hebrew text it is, "the days of our years in them are", &c.; F1 בהם "in ipsis", Pagninus, Montanus; "in quibus vivimus", Tigurine version, Vatablus. ; which refers either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of the Israelites in the wilderness, who were instances of this term of life, in whom perhaps it first took place in a general way: before the flood, men lived to a great age; some nine hundred years... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:11

Who knoweth the power of thine anger ?.... Expressed in his judgments on men: as the drowning of the old world, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the consumption of the Israelites in the wilderness; or in shortening the days of men, and bringing them to the dust of death; or by inflicting punishment on men after death; they are few that take notice of this, and consider it well, or look into the causes of it, the sins of men: such as are in hell experimentally know it; but men on earth,... read more

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