Psalms 90:7-17

7 For we have been ¹consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

8 You have ²placed our iniquities before You, Our ³secret sins in the light of Your presence.

9 For ⁴all our days have declined in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, ⁵eighty years, Yet their pride is but ⁶labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we ⁷fly away.

11 Who understands the ⁸power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the ⁹fear that is due You?

12 So ¹⁰teach us to number our days, That we may ¹¹present to You a heart of wisdom.

13 Do ¹²return, O LORD; ¹³how long * will it be? And be ¹⁴sorry for Your servants.

14 O ¹⁵satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may ¹⁶sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15 ¹⁷Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the ¹⁸years we have seen evil.

16 Let Your ¹⁹work appear to Your servants And Your ²⁰majesty to their children.

17 Let the ²¹favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And ²²confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

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Psalms 90:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 90

\\<>\\. Here begins the fourth part of the book of Psalms, and with the most ancient psalm throughout the whole book, it being written by Moses; not by one of that name that lived in later times; nor by one of his posterity; nor by some one who composed it, agreeably to his words and doctrines, and called it by his name; but by that Moses by whom the Lord brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, led them through the wilderness to the borders of Canaan's land, and by whom he delivered to them the lively oracles; and who is described as the man of God, a title given to Moses, De 33:1, so called, not as a creature of his make, so all men are; nor as a man of grace, born of God, so is every saint; but a man of more than ordinary gifts received from the Lord, a prophet of the Lord, and the chief of the prophets, and a type of the great Prophet; so inspired men and prophets under the Old Testament bear this name, and ministers of the Gospel under the New, \1Ki 17:18,24 2Pe 1:21 2Ti 3:17\. It is a conceit of Bohlius, that this prayer of his (so it is called, as several other psalms are, see Ps 17:1,86:1,102:1,142:1) was made by him when he was about seventy years of age, ten years before he was sent to Pharaoh, while he was in Midian, which he gathers from Ps 90:10; others think it was written towards the end of his life, and when weary of it, and his travels in the wilderness; but it is more generally thought that it was penned about the time when the spies brought a bad report of the land, and the people fell a murmuring; which provoked the Lord, that he threatened them that they should spend their lives in misery in the wilderness, and their carcasses should fall there; and their lives were cut short, and reduced to threescore years and ten, or thereabout; only Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, lived to a greater age; and on occasion of this Moses wrote this psalm, setting forth the brevity and misery of human life; so the Targum, ``a prayer which Moses the prophet of the Lord prayed, when the people of the house of Israel sinned in the wilderness.'' Jarchi and some other Jewish writers {z} not only ascribe this psalm to Moses, but the ten following, being without a name; but it is certain that Psalm 95 was written by David, as appears from Heb 4:7 and Psalm 96 is his, compared with 1Ch 16:23 and in Psalm 99 mention is made of Samuel, who lived long after the times of Moses.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

1. Psalms 39:11
2. Psalms 50:21; Jeremiah 16:17
3. Psalms 19:12; Ecclesiastes 12:14
4. Psalms 78:33
5. 2 Kings 19:35
6. Ecclesiastes 12:2-7; Jeremiah 20:18
7. Job 20:8; Psalms 78:39
8. Psalms 76:7
9. Nehemiah 5:9
10. Deuteronomy 32:29; Psalms 39:4
11. Proverbs 2:1-6
12. Psalms 6:4; Psalms 80:14
13. Psalms 6:3; Psalms 74:10
14. Exodus 32:12; Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 135:14; Amos 7:3, 6; Jonah 3:9
15. Psalms 36:8; Psalms 65:4; Psalms 103:5; Jeremiah 31:14
16. Psalms 31:7; Psalms 85:6
17. Psalms 86:4
18. Deuteronomy 2:14-16; Psalms 31:10
19. Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 44:1; Psalms 77:12; Psalms 92:4; Habakkuk 3:2
20. 1 Kings 8:11; Isaiah 6:3
21. Psalms 27:4
22. Psalms 37:23; Isaiah 26:12; 1 Corinthians 3:7

Footnotes 13

[a]. Or "terrified"
[b]. Or "whisper"
[c]. Lit "years"
[d]. Lit "in them are"
[e]. Or "knows"
[f]. Lit "of You"
[g]. Or "gain, bring in"
[h]. Or "repent in regard to"
[i]. Or "as many days as"
[j]. Or "trouble"
[k]. Or "upon"
[l]. Or "give permanence to"
[m]. Or "give permanence to"