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PSALM 90
Who, considering that terrible but righteous sentence of God concerning the cutting off all that sinful generation in the wilderness, of which see Num 14, takes that occasion to publish these meditations concerning mans mortality and misery in this life, which might be useful both to that and to all succeeding generations.
Moses, setting forth the eternity and providence of God, Psa_90:1:2, describeth the misery and shortness of man’s life, Psa_90:3-11; prayeth for wisdom to number his days, Psa_90:12; and for the knowledge and sensible experience of God’s good providence, Psa_90:13-17.
Although we and our fathers, for some generations, have had no certain and fixed habitation, but have been strangers in a land that was not ours, and afflicted for four hundred years, according to thy prediction, Gen_15:13; and although we now are, and have been for some time, and still are like to continue, in, a vast howling wilderness, having no houses but dwelling in tents, and wandering from place to place, we know not whither; yet thou, O Lord, hast fully supplied this want, and hast been instead of and better than a dwelling-place to us, by thy watchful and gracious providence over us in all places and exigencies. And this is a very proper preface to this Psalm, to intimate that all the following miseries were not to be imputed to God, but unto themselves, who by their own sins had brought these mischiefs upon themselves.