The Spurgeon Archive Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon
Psalm 90  Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the
Village Preacher Other Works  TITLE. A Prayer of Moses the man
of God. Many attempts have been made to prove that Moses did not
write this Psalm, but we remain unmoved in the conviction that
he did so. The condition of Israel in the wilderness is so
preeminently illustrative of each verse, and the turns,
expressions, and words are so similar to many in the Pentateuch,
that the difficulties suggested are, to our mind, light as air
in comparison with the internal evidence in favour of its Mosaic
origin. Moses was mighty in word as well as deed, and this Psalm
we believe to be one of his weighty utterances, worthy to stand
side by side with his glorious oration recorded in Deuteronomy.
Moses was peculiarly a man of God and God's man; chosen of God,
inspired of God, honoured of God, and faithful to God in all his
house, he well deserved the name which is here given him. The
Psalm is called a