Psalm 90 — What iS God’s Wrath?

A Prayer of Moses a Man of God

With Word Insights [facts] (thoughts)

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and world, from age to ages you are God. 3 You return man to dust and say, “Go back! Return, O children of dust!”

4 A thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it has gone by, or as a watch in the night.

5 Swept away, like but a dream. Like herbs that grow up in the morning!

6 In the morning it flourishes and blooms. In the evening it fades and withers.

7 For we are spent and brought to an end by your anger [aph - a nostril, nose, face, anger, from anaph - to be angry (this feels different to me that aph be from anaph🤷🏼‍♀️lol.. like ‘held back’ is the sense I’m getting]. By your wrath [chemah - heat, from yacham - to be hot, to conceive (be in heat🥴 He cannot help but breathe out the rescue/remedy!) By your wrath (dust to dust) we are dismayed [bahal - disturbed, terrified] (consumed).

8 You have set “what is done/what we do and what it brings” [word is avon] before you, our secrets in the bright radiance of your presence.

9 All our days pass away under your wrath (a slow fading.. a slow burn/gehenna - “THE” crucible, laver, sieve. The dis-ease is part of the cure. God is 200% (oops freudian slip) unfettered Genius). Our years end on a sigh.

10 The are seventy, or if by reason of strength eighty (or more!) yet their span is but toil and trouble. They are soon gone, and we fly away [uwph - brandish, wave].

11 Who considers [yada - knows, understands] the power of your anger? For as the fear [yirah - awesome, extremely, fearing, reverence] is your wrath [enbrah - overflow ‘from a region’ from abar - alienate]?

12 So teach us to count (make count) our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted [anah - bowed down afflicted, defiled] us (“HE [who “iS Life”] has subjected all to disobedience/straying/imPerfection, that he may have/exercise mercy upon aLL” [pas - every, all, the whole] Romans 11:32). Make us rejoice, for as many years as (wAy longer than) we have seen evil [ra'- adversity, bad, evil].

16 Let your work be seen by your servants, and your glory to the children.

17 Let the favor [noam - delightfulness, pleasantness, beauty] of the LORD our God be upon us! And establish (ye) the work of our hands - upon us [al - upon, above, over (what we do and what it brings, imperfect = entropy. Wrath, cause and effect]. Yes, establish [kun - make firm] the work of our hands!