Psalms 90:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 90:2

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

BSB

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ASV

Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

KJV

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Before the mountains were brought forth - The mountains and hills appear to have been everlasting; but as they were brought forth out of the womb of eternity, there was a time when they were not: but Thou hast been ab aeternitate a parte ante, ad aeternitatem a parte post; fram the eternity that is past, before time began; to the eternity that is after, when time shall have an end. This is the highest description of the eternity of God to which human language can reach.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

Before the mountains were brought forth. Before those elder giants had struggled forth from nature's womb, as her dread firstborn, the Lord was glorious and self sufficient. Mountains to him, though hoar with the snows of ages, are but new born babes, young things whose birth was but yesterday, mere novelties of an hour. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world. Here too the allusion is to a birth. Earth was born but the other day, and her solid land was delivered from the flood but a short while ago.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּטֶ֤רֶם׀	be.Te.rem	<in> before	H2962 →
הָ֘רִ֤ים	ha.Rim	mountains	H2022 →
יֻלָּ֗דוּ	yu.La.du	they were born	H3205 →
וַתְּח֣וֹלֵֽל	va.te.Cho.lel	and you brought forth	H2342 →
אֶ֣רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] earth	H776 →
וְתֵבֵ֑ל	ve.te.Vel	and [the] world	H8398 →
וּֽמֵעוֹלָ֥ם	u.me.'o.Lam	and from antiquity	H5769 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
ע֝וֹלָ֗ם	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →
אַתָּ֥ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
אֵֽל׃	'El	[are] God	H410 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
leads to
- John 1:1–3
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Hebrews 11:3
  By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
- Isaiah 45:18
  For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be…
- Revelation 4:11
  “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and came to be.”
- Hebrews 1:10
  And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Through
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
leads to
- Isaiah 44:6
  Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

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02Original language & word study

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06About Psalms

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms