{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa090.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa090.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa090.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\ndwelling-place--home (compare Eze 11:16), as a refuge (Deu 33:27).\nbrought forth [and] formed--both express the idea of production by birth.\nto destruction--literally, \"even to dust\" (Gen 3:19), which is partly quoted in the last clause.\nEven were our days now a thousand years, as Adam's, our life would be but a moment in God's sight (Pe2 3:8).\na watch--or, third part of a night (compare Exo 14:24).\nLife is like grass, which, though changing under the influence of the night's dew, and flourishing in the morning, is soon cut down and withereth (Psa 103:15; Pe1 1:24).\nFor--A reason, this is the infliction of God's wrath.\ntroubled--literally, \"confounded by terror\" (Psa 2:5). Death is by sin (Rom 5:12). Though \"secret,\" the light of God's countenance, as a candle, will bring sin to view (Pro 20:27; Co1 4:5).\nare passed--literally, \"turn,\" as to depart (Jer 6:4).\nspend--literally, \"consume.\"\nas a tale--literally, \"a thought,\" or, \"a sigh\" (Eze 2:10).\nMoses' life was an exception (Deu 34:7).\nit is . . . cut off--or, \"driven,\" as is said of the quails in using the same word (Num 11:31). In view of this certain and speedy end, life is full of sorrow.\nThe whole verse may be read as a question implying the negative, \"No one knows what Thy anger can do, and what Thy wrath is, estimated by a true piety.\"\nThis he prays we may know or understand, so as properly to number or appreciate the shortness of our days, that we may be wise.\n(Compare Psa 13:2).\nlet it repent--a strong figure, as in Exo 32:12, imploring a change in His dealings.\nearly--promptly.\nAs have been our sorrows, so let our joys be great and long.\nthy work--or, providential acts.\nthy glory-- (Psa 8:5; Psa 45:3), the honor accruing from Thy work of mercy to us.\nlet the beauty--or sum of His gracious acts, in their harmony, be illustrated in us, and favor our enterprise.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 90","type":"page"}