Psalms 90:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Psalms 90:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Job 34:14-15
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; …
Psalms 146:4
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Psalms 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses. Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses’s time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord. Moses taught the people of Israel to pray, and put words into their mouths which t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. to destruction--literally, “even to dust” (Ge 3:19), which is partly quoted in the last clause.