Psalms Chapter 90 [YLT]

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1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. LORD – Jehovah. E45

Dwelling place – Refuge. The city of refuge which God has provided for us is Christ, under the cover of his merit, his robe of righteousness. R3116:1


Lord, a habitation Thou Thou hast been, To us in generation and generation,
2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God. From everlasting – From all eternity, without a beginning. E86; CR247:1; R338:4, R421:5, R3920:3, R4107:2

His qualities and attributes have always been the same. R5209:3

With unlimited time, he is working out his plan with great deliberation. R5251:3

Back of all inanimate causes there must be an intelligent first cause, an intelligent designer, and that is God. R675:6

Contrary to Mormonism. HG731:4

To everlasting – Self -centered, self -contained, the same yesterday, today and forever, he changes not. SM483:4 Psalms 90:3

Man to destruction – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. R2172:3

As a natural result of the penalty on father Adam. E363; F331

To sheol, hades, the grave. HG228:3

Not torture. R649:3, R846:4

And sayest, Return – In resurrection, because the price is paid. E353; R615:5*; HG333:5

The revival of man's life will not make him immortal or incapable of destruction. HG358:3


3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. For a thousand years – From the divine standpoint "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." (2 Pet. 3:8) "In the day that thou eatest thereof." (Gen. 2:17) SM151:2

It was within one of these "days" that Adam died at the age of 930. F332

God has permitted a reign of evil during six of these thousand-year days. PD18/26

"A little while and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me." (John 16:16) R702:4

But as yesterday – It is only as measured by the shortness of present life that the 6000 years of evil seems very long. R1092:4

The lapse of time between death and the awakening will be nothing to the dead when it is past, since they are entirely unconscious of it. R1017:6

Watch in the night – To God a thousand years are but a watch in the night. R5210:3

Showing that even a shorter period than a "day" can be referred to as a thousand years. SM151:2


5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. They are as a sleep – Rest, or peaceful sleep. R2172:3

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
10 Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. And we fly away – Into the land of the enemy, the prisonhouse of death. R4792:6

11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger And according to Thy fear Thy wrath
12 To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. Number our days – Counting the days as so many blessings, so many privileges, so many opportunities to serve. R2896:6

"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." (Rom. 12:11) R1532:2


13 Turn back, O Jehovah, till when And repent concerning Thy servants.
14 Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
16 Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.
17 And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it! And let the beauty – The justice, mercy, wisdom and power. R2570:5

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