The following is suggested as the most satisfactory rendering of these verses: Time (literally, a year; but the root idea is the …

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; t…

Thou carriest them away as with a flood. Moses confirms what he had previously said: that as long as men are sojourners in this world, the…

Thou carriest them away as with a flood
As the whole world of the ungodly were with the deluge, to which perhaps the…

It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israel in the wilderness (Numbers 14). The favour and protection of God…