Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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
Before the mountains were brought forth. Before those elder giants had struggled forth from nature's womb, as her dread firstborn, the Lord was glorious and self sufficient. Mountains to him, though hoar with the snows of ages, are but new born babes, young things whose birth was but yesterday, mere novelties of an hour. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world.
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