Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 90:7

Albert Barnes Commentary

Psalms 90:7

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Psalms 90:7

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled." — Psalms 90:7 (ASV)

For we are consumed by your anger — That is, Death — the cutting off of the human race — may be regarded as an expression of your displeasure against mankind as a race of sinners. The death of man would not have occurred but for sin (Genesis 3:3, Genesis 3:19; Romans 5:12); and all the circumstances connected with it — the fact of death, the dread of death, the pain that precedes death, the paleness and coldness and rigidity of the dead, and the slow and offensive returning to dust in the grave — all are adapted to be, and seem designed to be, illustrations of the anger of God against sin.

We cannot, indeed, always say that death in a specific case is proof of the direct and special anger of God in that case; but we can say that death always, and death in its general features, may and should be regarded as an evidence of the divine displeasure against the sins of people.

And by your wrath — As expressed in death.

Are we troubled — Are our plans confounded and broken up; our minds made sad and sorrowful; our habitations made abodes of grief.