--- title: "Psalms 90 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 90 with clarkes commentary 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/clarkes-commentary/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 The *title* of this Psalm is, *A Prayer of Moses the man of God*. The *Chaldee* has, "A prayer which Moses the prophet of the Lord prayed when the people of Israel had sinned in the wilderness." All the *Versions* ascribe it to Moses; but that it could not be of Moses the *lawgiver* is evident from this consideration, that the age of man was not then *seventy* or *eighty years*, which is here stated to be its almost universal limit, for Joshua lived *one* *hundred and ten* years, and Moses himself *one hundred and twenty*; Miriam his sister, *one hundred and thirty*; Aaron his brother, *one* *hundred and twenty-three*; Caleb, *four-score and five* years; and their contemporaries lived in the same proportion. [Psalms 90:4](/kjv/psalms/90/4). Therefore the Psalm cannot at all refer to such *ancient* times. If the *title* be at all authentic, it must refer to some *other person* of that name; and indeed איש אלהים *ish* *Elohim*, a man of God, a divinely inspired man, agrees to the times of the prophets, who were thus denominated. The Psalm was doubtless composed during or after the captivity; and most probably on their return, when they were engaged in rebuilding the temple; and this, as Dr. *Kennicott* conjectures, may be *the work of* *their hands*, which they pray God to *bless* and *prosper*. Verse [Psalms 90:1](/kjv/psalms/90/1). ***Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place*** — מעון *maon*; but instead of this several MSS. have מעוז *maoz*, "place of defence," or "refuge," which is the reading of the *Vulgate,* *Septuagint, Arabic*, and *Anglo-Saxon*. Ever since thy covenant with Abraham thou hast been the Resting-place, Refuge, and Defence of thy people Israel. 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