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Selected Verse: Psalms 90:2 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 90:2 |
Strong Concordance |
Before the mountains [02022] were brought forth [03205], or ever thou hadst formed [02342] the earth [0776] and the world [08398], even from everlasting [05769] to [05704] everlasting [05769], thou art God [0410]. |
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King James |
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| brought forth [and] formed--both express the idea of production by birth. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Before the mountains were brought forth - Before the earth brought forth or produced the mountains. In the description of the creation it would be natural to represent the mountains as the first objects that appeared, as emerging from the waters; and, therefore, as the "first" or "most ancient" of created objects. The phrase, therefore, is equivalent to saying, Before the earth was created. The literal meaning of the expression, "were brought forth," is, in the Hebrew, "were born." The mountains are mentioned as the most ancient things in creation, in Deu 33:15. Compare Gen 49:26; Hab 3:6.
Or ever thou hadst formed - literally, "hadst brought forth." Compare Job 39:1.
The earth and the world - The word "earth" here is used to denote the world as distinguished either from heaven Gen 1:1, or from the sea Gen 1:10. The term "world" in the original is commonly employed to denote the earth considered as "inhabited," or as capable of being inhabited - a dwelling place for living beings.
Even from everlasting to everlasting - From duration stretching backward without limit to duration stretching forward without limit; that is, from eternal ages to eternal ages; or, forever.
Thou art God - Or, "Thou, O God." The idea is, that he was always, and ever will be, God: the God; the true God; the only God; the unchangeable God. At any period in the past, during the existence of the earth, or the heavens, or before either was formed, he existed, with all the attributes essential to Deity; at any period in the future - during the existence of the earth and the heavens, or beyond - far as the mind can reach into the future, and even beyond that - he will still exist unchanged, with all the attributes of Deity. The creation of the universe made no change in him; its destruction would not vary the mode of his existence, or make him in any respect a different being. There could not be a more absolute and unambiguous declaration, as there could not be one more sublime, of the eternity of God. The mind cannot take in a grander thought than that there is one eternal and immutable Being. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thou - Thou hadst thy power, and all thy perfections, from all eternity. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
10 And God [0430] called [07121] the dry [03004] land Earth [0776]; and the gathering together [04723] of the waters [04325] called [07121] he Seas [03220]: and God [0430] saw [07200] that it was good [02896].
1 In the beginning [07225] God [0430] created [01254] [0853] the heaven [08064] and [0853] the earth [0776].
1 Knowest [03045] thou the time [06256] when the wild goats [03277] of the rock [05553] bring forth [03205]? or canst thou mark [08104] when the hinds [0355] do calve [02342]?
6 He stood [05975], and measured [04128] the earth [0776]: he beheld [07200], and drove asunder [05425] the nations [01471]; and the everlasting [05703] mountains [02042] were scattered [06327], the perpetual [05769] hills [01389] did bow [07817]: his ways [01979] are everlasting [05769].
26 The blessings [01293] of thy father [01] have prevailed [01396] above the blessings [01293] of my progenitors [02029] unto the utmost bound [08379] of the everlasting [05769] hills [01389]: they shall be on the head [07218] of Joseph [03130], and on the crown of the head [06936] of him that was separate [05139] from his brethren [0251].
15 And for the chief things [07218] of the ancient [06924] mountains [02042], and for the precious things [04022] of the lasting [05769] hills [01389],