Psalms 90
1 Moses, setting forth God's providence.
3 complains of human fragility,
7 divine chastisements,
10 and brevity of life.
12 He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence.
[A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490. (Title.) A Prayer, or, A prayer, being a Psalm of Moses.]
This Psalm is supposed to have been composed by Moses, when all the generation of the Israelites who had offended God, were sentenced to fail in the wilderness, at the age of seventy or eighty years, except Moses, Caleb, and Joshua.
man <0376> [the man.]
Lord <0136> [Lord.]
all generations <01755> [all generations. Heb. generation and generation.]
mountains <02022> [Before.]
brought .... into being <02342> [or ever.]
eternal <05769> [even from.]
brought .... into being ...... God <02342 0410> [thou.]
return ....... Return <07725> [Thou.]
return ....... Return ... people <07725 01121 0120> [Return ye children of men.]
Rather, "Return ye children of Adam;" i.e., to that dust out of which ye were originally formed.
thousand <0505> [For.]
passes <05674> [is past. or, when he hath passed them. and as.]
bring .... to an end <02229> [Thou.]
asleep <08142> [as a sleep.]
morning <01242> [morning.]
sprouts up <02498> [groweth up. or, is changed.]
consumed <03615> [For we.]
terrified <0926> [are we.]
aware <07896> [Thou.]
sins ....... hidden <05771 05956> [our.]
<03974> [in the.]
days <03117> [For.]
experience <06437> [passed. Heb. turned. we spend.]
The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}
sigh <01899> [a tale. Heb. a meditation.]
days <03117> [The days, etc. Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.]
best <07296> [yet.]
quickly <02440> [for.]
teach <03045> [So.]
live <0935> [that.]
live <03824 0935> [apply our hearts. Heb. cause our hearts to come.]
back <07725> [Return.]
suffering .... pity <05162> [how.]
suffering .... pity <05162> [let it.]
Satisfy <07646> [satisfy.]
shout <07442> [that we.]
happy <08055> [Make.]
years <08141> [the years.]
work <06467> [Let.]
majesty <01926> [and.]
extend his favor <05278> [And let.]
successful ..... successful <03559> [establish.]
