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Commentaries on Psalms 90:2

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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, and called it by his name; but by that Moses by...

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 mountains and everlasting hills, Genesis 49:26, for they...

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 record a praising song of his (Exod. xv., which is...

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 is no change in thee. Beloved brethren, you know...

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 infinite mind like unborn forests sleep in an...