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CHAP. XC.
1 Moses setting foorth Gods prouidence, 3 complaineth, of humane fragility, 7 diuine chastisements, 10 and breuity of life. 12 He prayeth for the knowledge and sencible experience of Gods good prouidence.
1 [A prayer of Moses the man of God.] Lord, thou hast bene our dwelling place in all generations.1
3 Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men.
4 For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night.4
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp.5
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger: and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee: our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our yeeres as a tale that is told.9
10 The dayes of our yeres are threescore yeeres and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourescore yeeres, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soone cut off, and we flie away.10
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? euen according to thy feare, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach vs to number our daies: that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome.12
13 Returne (O Lord) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy seruants.
14 O satisfie vs early with thy mercie: that we may reioyce, and be glad all our dayes.
16 Let thy worke appeare vnto thy seruants: and thy glory vnto their children.
View Wesley's Notes for Psalms Chapter 90
90:2 Thou - Thou hadst thy power, and all thy perfections, from all eternity.
90:3 Turnedst - But as for man, his case is far otherwise, though he was made by thee happy. and immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him mortal and miserable. Saidst - Didst pronounce that sad sentence, return, O men, to the dust out of which ye were taken, #Gen 3:19|.
90:4 Past - Indeed time seems long when it is to come, but when it is past, very short and contemptible. A watch - Which lasted but three or four hours.
90:5 Them - Mankind. Away - Universally, without exception or distinction. A sleep - Short and vain, as sleep is, and not minded 'till it be past.
90:7 Are consumed - Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might by the course of nature.
90:8 Hast set - Thou dost observe them, as a righteous judge, and art calling us to an account for them. Secret sins - Which though hid from the eyes of men, thou hast brought to light by thy judgments.
90:10 Our years - Of the generality of mankind, in that and all following ages, some few persons excepted. Flee - We do not now go to death, as we do from our very birth, but flee swiftly away like a bird, as this word signifies.
90:11 Thy fear - According to the fear of thee; according to that fear which sinful men have of a just God. So - It bears full proportion to it, nay indeed doth far exceed it.
90:12 Teach us - To consider the shortness of life, and the certainty and speediness of death. That - That we may heartily devote ourselves to true wisdom.
90:13 Return - To us in mercy. How long - Will it be before thou return to us? Repent thee - Of thy severe proceedings against us.
90:14 Early - Speedily.
90:17 The beauty - His gracious influence, and glorious presence. In us - Do not only work for us, but in us,
Psalms Chapter 90 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
1 Heb. in generation and generation.
4 2.Pet.3.8. , Or, when he hath passed them.
5 Or, is changed.
9 Hebr. turned away. , Or, as a meditation.
10 Hebr. as for the dayes of our yeeres, in them are seuentie yeeres.
12 Heb. cause to come.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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