Psalm 90

From Everlasting to Everlasting

A prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹Lord, You have been our dwelling place

through all generations.

• PS 90:1[NOTE]MOSES. The only psalm with his name. If Moses wrote it, it is the oldest psalm, from about 1400 BC.
• PS 90:1[NOTE]BOOK FOUR starts with Moses. Many see the whole book of Psalms as five books, like the five books of Moses.

²Before the mountains were born

or You brought forth the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting

You are God.

³You return man to dust,

saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

⁴For in Your sight a thousand years

are but a day that passes,

or a watch of the night.

• PS 90:4[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → 2PE 3:8
• PS 90:4[NOTE]A THOUSAND YEARS. Peter uses this when people asked why Jesus has not come back yet, 2 Peter 3:8.

⁵You sweep them away in their sleep;

they are like the new grass of the morning—

⁶in the morning it springs up new,

but by evening it fades and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by Your anger

and terrified by Your wrath.

⁸You have set our iniquities before You,

our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

⁹For all our days decline in Your fury;

we finish our years with a sigh.

¹⁰The length of our days is seventy years—

or eighty if we are strong—

yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

• PS 90:10[NOTE]SEVENTY YEARS, OR EIGHTY. Moses lived to 120, Deuteronomy 34:7, but most people did not.

¹¹Who knows the power of Your anger?

Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

¹²So teach us to number our days,

that we may present a heart of wisdom.

• PS 90:12[NOTABLE]Life is short. Remembering that helps you spend it on what matters.

¹³Return, O Yahweh! How long will it be?

Have compassion on Your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion,

that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us,

for as many years as we have seen evil.

¹⁶May Your work be shown to Your servants,

and Your splendor to their children.

¹⁷May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;

establish for us the work of our hands—

yes, establish the work of our hands!