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<p id="Chapter90" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 90
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<p id="Ps90_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',90,'1-17');">Psa 90:1-17</a>.
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<p>Contrasting man's frailty with God's eternity, the writer mourns over it as the punishment of sin, and prays for a return of the divine favor. <i>A Prayer</i> [mainly such] <i>of Moses the man of God</i>— (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',33,1);">Deu 33:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jos',14,6);">Jos 14:6</a>); as such he wrote this (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa018.html#Ps18_1">Ps 18:1</a>, title, and JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa036.html#Ps36_1">Ps 36:1</a>, title).
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<p><b>1. dwelling-place</b>—home (compare <a onclick="return mV('Eze',11,16);">Eze 11:16</a>), as a refuge (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',33,27);">Deu 33:27</a>).
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<p id="Ps90_2"><b>2. brought forth</b> [and] <b>formed</b>—both express the idea of production by birth.
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<p id="Ps90_3"><b>3. to destruction</b>—literally, "even to dust" (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',3,19);">Gen 3:19</a>), which is partly quoted in the last clause.
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<p id="Ps90_4"><b>4.</b> Even were our days now a thousand years, as Adam's, our life would be but a moment in God's sight (<a onclick="return mV('2Pe',3,8);">2Pe 3:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>a watch</b>—or, third part of a night (compare <a onclick="return mV('Exd',14,24);">Exd 14:24</a>).
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<p id="Ps90_5"><b>5, 6.</b> Life 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 (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',103,15);">Psa 103:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',1,24);">1Pe 1:24</a>).
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<p id="Ps90_7"><b>7, 8. For</b>—A reason, this is the infliction of God's wrath.
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<br><br><b>troubled</b>—literally, "confounded by terror" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',2,5);">Psa 2:5</a>). Death is by sin (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',5,12);">Rom 5:12</a>). Though "secret," the light of God's countenance, as a candle, will bring sin to view (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',20,27);">Pro 20:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',4,5);">1Cr 4:5</a>).
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<p id="Ps90_9"><b>9. are passed</b>—literally, "turn," as to depart (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,4);">Jer 6:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>spend</b>—literally, "consume."
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<br><br><b>as a tale</b>—literally, "a thought," or, "a sigh" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',2,10);">Eze 2:10</a>).
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<p id="Ps90_10"><b>10.</b> Moses life was an exception (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',34,7);">Deu 34:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>it is...cut off</b>—or, "driven," as is said of the quails in using the same word (<a onclick="return mV('Num',11,31);">Num 11:31</a>). In view of this certain and speedy end, life is full of sorrow.
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<p id="Ps90_11"><b>11.</b> The 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."
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<p id="Ps90_12"><b>12.</b> This he prays we may know or understand, so as properly to number or appreciate the shortness of our days, that we may be wise.
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<p id="Ps90_13"><b>13.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',13,2);">Psa 13:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>let it repent</b>—a strong figure, as in <a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,12);">Exd 32:12</a>, imploring a change in His dealings.
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<p id="Ps90_14"><b>14. early</b>—promptly.
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<p id="Ps90_15"><b>15.</b> As have been our sorrows, so let our joys be great and long.
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<p id="Ps90_16"><b>16. thy work</b>—or, providential acts.
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<br><br><b>thy glory</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',8,5);">Psa 8:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',45,3);">45:3</a>), the honor accruing from Thy work of mercy to us.
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<p id="Ps90_17"><b>17. let the beauty</b>—or sum of His gracious acts, in their harmony, be illustrated in us, and favor our enterprise.
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