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Psalms 90:1
A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Attributed to Moses, speaking to the Lord on behalf of Israel, asserting God's role as the people's abiding shelter across all their history.
The words — מָעוֹן (ma'on) means a secure, sheltered dwelling place, stronger than a simple "home." The doubled דֹּר (dor, "generation and generation") is a fixed idiom for all time, not two specific eras.
The thread — Deuteronomy 33:27 uses the same מָעוֹן for the "eternal God" as Israel's dwelling place; 1 John 4:16 inverts the direction, placing the believer inside God's abiding love.
Why it lands — It grounds Israel's security in God's constancy rather than in any human institution, and it asks the reader to locate their own stability in the one who has outlasted every generation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
- Psalms 71:3 Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
- 1 John 4:16 And 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.
- Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
- Psalms 91:9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—
- Exodus 33:14 And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- Psalms 89:1 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- John 6:56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
- Numbers 13:1 And the LORD said to Moses,