Psalms 90 — Overview

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Psalms 90:1, Moses, setting forth God’s providence; Psalms 90:3, complains of human fragility, Psalms 90:7, divine chastisements, Psalms 90:10, and brevity of life; Psalms 90:12, He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God’s good providence.

being a Psalm of Moses. This Psalm is supposed to have been composed by Moses, when all the generation of the Israelites who had offended God, were sentenced to fail in the wilderness, at the age of seventy or eighty years, except Moses, Caleb, and Joshua.

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