Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 90:1

"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations." — Psalms 90:1 (ASV)

Dwelling place. —The Septuagint and Vulgate render this as “refuse,” possibly reading maôz instead of maôn. Some manuscripts support this reading.

However, Deuteronomy 33:17 uses the feminine form of this latter word, and the idea of a continued abode strikes the keynote of the psalm.

The short duration of each succeeding generation of people on earth is contrasted with the eternity of God and the permanence given to Israel as a race by the covenant that united them with the Eternal.

But we may extend this thought. Human history continues from generation to generation (so the Hebrew); one departs and another comes. Yet, in relation to the unchanging God, who rules over all human history, even the transient creatures of an hour may come to feel secure and at home.