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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 90 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Here begins the fourth part of the book of Psalms, and with the most ancient psalm throughout the whole book, it being written by Moses; not by one of that name that lived in later times; nor by one of his posterity; nor by some one who composed it, agreeably to his words and doctrines,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations,.... Even when they had no certain dwelling place in the world; so their ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, dwelt in tabernacles in the land of promise, as in a strange land; and their posterity for many years served under great affliction and oppression in a land that was not theirs;...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The foregoing psalm is supposed to have been penned as late as the captivity in Babylon; this, it is plain, was penned as early as the deliverance out of Egypt, and yet they are put close together in this collection of divine songs. This psalm was penned by Moses (as appears by the title), the most ancient penman of sacred writ. We have upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. “Did not Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all our fathers dwell in thee? And though we are now weary-footed pilgrims, who have no fixed dwelling place on earth, we do dwell in thee. Thou, Lord, art the true home of all the generations of thy people.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations. Thy chosen people have dwelt in thee. Thou art their rest, their refuge, their comfort, their home. It is just the same now as in the days of Moses. God’s people have no dwelling-place for their souls, but their God. They are happy when they get to him. In him they dwell at ease.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations. All thy saints abide in thee. Thy fiery, cloudy pillar covers and protects us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. “This world in which we live is no home for our immortal spirits. Thou givest us habitations for our bodies, but they are no dwelling places for our spirits that are of a nobler order. We dwell in thee, O Lord; thou art our home. Beneath thy wide wings we find blessed shelter, and in...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. We must consider the whole Psalm as written for the tribes in the desert, and then we shall see the primary meaning of each verse. Moses, in effect, says—wanderers though we be in the howling wilderness, yet we find a home in thee, even as our forefathers did when they came out of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Before the mountains were brought forth,.... Or "were born" (b), and came forth out of the womb and bowels of the earth, and were made to rise and stand up at the command of God, as they did when he first created the earth; and are mentioned not only because of their firmness and stability, but their antiquity: hence we read of the ancient...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. God is the only being who has had eternal and essential existence independently of all others, and all others have owed their existence to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Before the mountains were brought forth, Before they were born like infants, gigantic as they are. Psa_90:2. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Everything else changes. Thou dost not. We lose our comforts. We dwell, as it were, in tents which are taken down, and removed, but there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Oh! that is grand to feel that there is something stable: there is a rock that never crumbles — god from everlasting to everlasting the same. As for us, what are we?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. When compared with God, those hoary hills are but as infants of a day, and the whole round world itself is but as a new-born child. “From everlasting” has he existed, — when all created things slept in his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 dissolution of the union between them; the words may be rendered, "thou turnest man until he is broken" (b); and crumbled into dust; thou turnest him about in the world, and through a course of afflictions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. He sends us forth into life, and he calls us back again in death.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye children of men. He has only to speak — no need to take the scythe and mow us down. He does but say, “Return, ye children of men,” and we go back to the dust.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men. A breath gave them life: a word makes them die.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Man is mortal, conspicuously so. As we walk about our streets, how we miss our old companions one by one. They have returned to the bosom of mother earth whence they first sprang. The inhabitants of this world seem to pass in procession before our eyes; those who were here a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 dead, taken from the length of time in which some have continued in the grave; which vanishes, when it is observed, that in thy sight, esteem, and account of God, a thousand years are but as one day;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Yesterday, while it was with us, was a short period of four and twenty hours; but when it is past, it seems like nothing at all. A thousand years, all big with events which we consider to be full of weight and importance, make up a long period in...