Psa 90:1-7 | JFB | STEP | 1. dwelling-place-- home (compare ), as a refuge ( ).

‏ Psalms 90:1-7

PSALM 90

Psa 90:1-17. 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. A Prayer [mainly such] of Moses the man of God--(De 33:1; Jos 14:6); as such he wrote this (see on Psa 18:1, title, and Psa 36:1, title).

1. dwelling-place--home (compare Eze 11:16), as a refuge (De 33:27).

2. brought forth [and] formed--both express the idea of production by birth.

3. to destruction--literally, "even to dust" (Ge 3:19), which is partly quoted in the last clause.

4. Even were our days now a thousand years, as Adam's, our life would be but a moment in God's sight (2Pe 3:8).

a watch--or, third part of a night (compare Ex 14:24).

5-6. 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 (Psa 103:15; 1Pe 1:24).

7-8. For--A reason, this is the infliction of God's wrath.

troubled--literally, "confounded by terror" (Psa 2:5). Death is by sin (Ro 5:12). Though "secret," the light of God's countenance, as a candle, will bring sin to view (Pr 20:27; 1Co 4:5).