Psalm 90:1-3

From Everlasting to Everlasting

Book Four

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

1
Lord, you have been our u dwelling place 1
in all generations.
2 v Before the w mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
x from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You return man to dust
and say, y "Return, z O children of man!" 2

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 17:1
    Hear a just cause, O Lord ; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
    Psalms 55:1
    Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 33:1
    This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
    Joshua 14:6
    Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
    Ezra 3:2
    Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 71:3
    Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
  4. Cross References
    Proverbs 8:25
    Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 33:15
    With the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills.
    Job 15:7
    Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
  6. Cross References
    Job 36:26
    Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 3:19
    By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
  8. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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