“ So teach us to number our days, that we may applyb our hearts unto wisdom. ”
So teach us to number our days - literally, “To number our days make us know, and we will bring a heart of wisdom.” The prayer is, that God would instruct us to estimate our days aright: their nu...
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto (l) wisdom. (l) Which is by considering the shortness of our life, and by meditating the heavenly joys.
BOOK IV. PSS. XC.- CVI. XC. Man's Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1-6 . The nothingness of man's life, the eternity of God's life. Psalms 90:7-10 . It is the sinf...
number our days. See note on "threescore", Psalms 90:10 , above. That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom . That we may bring home. heart of wisdom.
12. Teach us so to number our days. Some translate to the number of our days, which gives the same sense. As Moses perceived that what he had hitherto taught is not comprehended by the un...
DISCOURSE: 651 GOD’S ANGER A REASON FOR TURNING TO HIM Psalms 90:11-12 . Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that w...
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days - Let us deeply consider our own frailty, and the shortness and uncertaint...
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. -The Second part, First division. The mysterious relation of death to sin, as its wages, is little, if at all...
Number our days. — This verse as it stands literally gives to allot, or in allotting (see Isaiah 65:12 ), our days, so teach, and we will cause to come the heart wisdom. The last clause, if...
Psalms 90:1-17 THE sad and stately music of this great psalm befits the dirge of a world. How artificial and poor, beside its restrained emotion and majestic simplicity, do even the most deeply fe...
the Message of the Passing Years Psalms 90:1-17 The majestic music of this great psalm separates it from all the rest. It is like the deep bass stop of a mighty organ. Moses' authorship is stam...
The main purpose of this psalm is revealed in the prayer with which it concludes (vv. Psa 90:13-17). This prayer is prefaced by a meditation on the frailty of man (vv. Psa 90:3-12), in the light of e...
These verses contain the sanctified use of the foregoing meditations. If such be the transitory state of man upon earth, Lord cause thy people to improve these appointments of thine, to thy glory, an...
So teach us to number our days ,.... Not merely to count them, how many they are, in an arithmetical way; there is no need of divine teachings for that; some few instructions from an arithmetician,...
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom. Ver. 12. So teach us to number our days ] The philosopher affirms, that man is therefore the wisest of creatures, beca...
So teach us By thy Spirit and grace, as thou hast already taught us by thy word; to number our days To consider the shortness and miseries of this life, and the certainty and nearness of death, a...
Prayers for Mercy. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O L OR...
So teach us, by thy Spirit and grace, as thou hast already taught us by thy word. Or, teach us rightly (as this word is used, Numbers 27:7 2 Kings 7:9 ) to number, & c., as it follows....
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A prayer of Moses the man of God .” “The Psalm is described in the title,” says Hengstenberg, “as a prayer . This description shows, as Amyraldus saw, that the kern...
Psalms 90 This Psalm sets out with the definite statement of a theologic doctrine: the doctrine of the eternity of God. I. This splendid thought of the Divine eternity is made to touch the shifti...
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. It may help us to understand this Psalm if we recollect the circumstances which surrounded Moses when he was in the desert. For forty years, he had to see a whole ge...
The fourth book of Hebrew psalms opens here. The characters of the composition are majestic and sublime beyond imitation. The Chaldaic says, that this was a prayer of Moses, when the Hebrews were cut...
Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. The prayer of Moses The propriety of the title is confirmed by the psalm’s unique simplicity and grandeur; its appropriateness to his...
EXPOSITION THE ascription of this psalm in the title to Moses must be admitted to be very remarkable. No other psalm is so ascribed. Nor indeed is a date given to any other earlier than the ti...
The Mercy of God Man's Only Refuge. A prayer of Moses, the man of God, the prophet who stood in the relation of an intimate friend to the God of Israel, who here contrasts man's frailty, the conse...
Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Ecclesiastes 9:10 ; Ephesians 5:16 ; Ephesians 5:17 ; Job 28:28 ; John 9:4 ; Luke 12:35-40 ; Proverbs 16:16 ; Proverbs 18:1 ; Proverbs 18:2 ; Proverbs 2:2-6 ; Proverbs...
Teach us — To consider the shortness of life, and the certainty and speediness of death. That — That we may heartily devote ourselves to true wisdom.