--- title: "Psalms 90 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Psalms 90 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/psalms/90" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/90)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/90)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/90) Audio 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.** 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou *art* God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight *are but* as yesterday when it is past, and *as* a watch in the night.* 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are *as* a sleep: in the morning *they are* like grass *which* groweth up.* 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, 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 *sins* in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale *that is told*.** 10 The days of our years *are* threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength *they be* fourscore years, yet *is* their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.* 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, *so is* thy wrath. 12 So teach *us* to number our days, that we may apply *our* hearts unto wisdom.* 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days *wherein* thou hast afflicted us, *and* the years *wherein* we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. [Psalms 89](/study/psalms/89) [Psalms 91](/study/psalms/91) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Lord -**Not יהוה *Yahweh* here, but אדני *'Adonāy*. The word is properly rendered “Lord,” but it is a term which is often applied to God. It indicates, however, nothing in regard to his character or attributes except that he is a “Ruler or Governor.” **Thou hast been our dwelling-place -**The Septuagint renders this, “refuge” - καταφυγἡ *kataphugē*. So the Latin Vulgate, *“refugium;”* and Luther, “Zuflucht.” The Hebrew word - מעון *mâ‛ôn* - means properly a habitation, a dwelling, as of God in his temple, [Psalms 26:8](/kjv/psalms/26/8); heaven, [Psalms 68:5](/kjv/psalms/68/5); [Deuteronomy 26:15](/kjv/deuteronomy/26/15). It also means a den or lair for wild beasts, [Nahum 2:12](/kjv/nahum/2/12); [Jeremiah 9:11](/kjv/jeremiah/9/11). But here the idea seems to be, as in the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Luther, “a refuge”; a place to which one may come as to his home, as one does from a journey; from wandering; from toil; from danger: a place to which such a one naturally resorts, which he loves, and where he feels that he may rest secure. The idea is, that a friend of God has that feeling in respect to Him, which one has toward his own home - his abode - the place which he loves and calls his own. **In all generations -**Margin, “generation and generation.” That is, A succeeding generation has found him to be the same as the previous generation had. 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