Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwellingplace ] w[m maon; but instead of this several MSS. have zw[m maoz, "place of defense," or "refuge," which is the reading of the Vulgate, Septuagint, Arabic, and Anglo-Saxon.
Ever since thy covenant with Abraham thou hast been the Resting-place, Refuge, and Defence of thy people Israel. Thy mercy has been lengthened out from generation to generation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israe in the wilderness, Nu 14. The favour and protection of God are the onl sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evil world. Christ Jesus is the refuge and dwelling-place to which we may repair. We are dyin creatures, all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an ever-living God, and believers find him so. When God, by sickness or other afflictions, turns men to destruction, he thereby calls men to return unto him to repent of their sins, and live a new life. thousand years are nothing to God's eternity: between a minute and million of years there is some proportion; between time and eternit there is none. All the events of a thousand years, whether past or to come, are more present to the Eternal Mind, than what was done in the last hour is to us. And in the resurrection, the body and soul shal both return and be united again. Time passes unobserved by us, as with men asleep; and when it is past, it is as nothing. It is a short an quickly-passing life, as the waters of a flood. Man does but flouris as the grass, which, when the winter of old age comes, will wither; but he may be mown down by disease or disaster.
Original Hebrew תפלה8605 למשׁה4872 אישׁ376 האלהים430 אדני136 מעון4583 אתה859 היית1961 לנו בדר1755 ודר׃1755
