Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Moses opens by anchoring the people to God's covenant favor before he addresses their misery and judgment. He means to say: yes, you die like all men, yes, God punishes sin, but He has adopted you, and that peculiar grace is your true dwelling place through all generations.
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Commenting on Psalm 90:1-17
Wanderers in the howling wilderness, we find our home in Thee, not in tabernacle or temple, but in God Himself, as our fathers did in their tents among the Canaanites. Kings' palaces have crumbled to dust beneath time's hand, but the faithful have never lost their dwelling in the ever-living Jehovah, untouched by so much as the finger of decay.
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Moses taught Israel to pray by putting words into their mouths. Our fathers dwelt in tabernacles in Canaan as strangers, yet God was their habitation, their refuge and rest wherever they went. True believers are at home in God, and that is our comfort in all the toils and tribulations of this world.
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Commenting on Psalm 90:1-6