The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10) All of our days have been determined -- at least that is what I believe....

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. (Psalm 90:8) How many conversations and interactions with people, strangers and loved ones alike, have we forgotten? I'm sure the count is innumerable -- at least from our...

You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:3-4) Before the flood of Noah, men lived to be several hundred years old. Noah himself...

You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:3-4) If we were to summarize the essence of this psalm it would be the contrast between...

Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. (Psalm 90:1-2) This song begins the fourth book of the psalms and is...

You have made his glory cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth You have shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah. (Psalm 89:44-45) In the previous devotion, we addressed how the House of David was likened to the sun and moon in...

His seed shall endure forever, and His throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky. (Psalm 89:36-37) As has been mentioned multiple times in this psalm, God ordained that the Throne of David...

My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips, once I have sworn by My holiness. (Psalm 89:34-35) God keeps His Word -- of this there is no doubt. He is faithful to keep covenant with His people and fulfill His promises to us. As it is...

He shall cry to Me, “You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.” Also I will make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. (Psalm 89:26-27) These verses are a continuation of what was discussed in the previous devotion; that is, that...

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and said: “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.” (Psalm 89:19) It is commonly accepted in Jewish circles that this verse is written with David in mind, alluding to the events...

In Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn is exalted. (Psalm 89:16-17) When Abraham was called to come out of the land of the Chaldeans, it seems that he obeyed immediately -- a tendency that would be...

Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long. (Psalm 89:15-16) Every month at the new moon, these verses are recited as an acknowledgement that we are to sound the shofar....