Book IV opens with the oldest psalm: 'A Prayer of Moses the man of God.' 'Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth… from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.' A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday. We are consumed in thine anger; our days pass away like a sigh: threescore years and ten. 'So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.' 'Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands.'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

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Poetry · David, Asaph, Sons of Korah, others — Psalms overview

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Psalms 393 verses
- Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
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Ecclesiastes 122 verses
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
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Isaiah 402 verses
- Isaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
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Psalms 782 verses
- Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
- Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
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Deuteronomy 322 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
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Deuteronomy 331 verse
- Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
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Psalms 711 verse
- Psalms 71:3Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
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1 John 41 verse
- 1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.