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New Living Translation

Psalms 90:12

Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Exhortations;   Prayer;   Redeeming the Time;   Time;   Wisdom;   Wisdom-Folly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Natural;   Heart, the;   Life, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Moses;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Time;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day;   Death, Mortality;   Person, Personhood;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Belshazzar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Time, Meaning of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Number (and forms);   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Wisdom (1);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apply;   Day;   Get;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amemar;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 8;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
So teach us to number our days,That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make vs to knowe so our dayes, that we number them: and we wyll frame a heart [vnto] wisdome.
Darby Translation
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
New King James Version
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Literal Translation
So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.
Easy-to-Read Version
Teach us how short our lives are so that we can become wise.
World English Bible
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
King James Version (1611)
So teach vs to number our daies: that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome.
King James Version
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.
THE MESSAGE
Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well! Come back, God —how long do we have to wait?— and treat your servants with kindness for a change. Surprise us with love at daybreak; then we'll skip and dance all the day long. Make up for the bad times with some good times; we've seen enough evil to last a lifetime. Let your servants see what you're best at— the ways you rule and bless your children. And let the loveliness of our Lord, our God, rest on us, confirming the work that we do. Oh, yes. Affirm the work that we do!
Amplified Bible
So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
American Standard Version
So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Bible in Basic English
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Update Bible Version
So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Webster's Bible Translation
So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
New English Translation
So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.
Contemporary English Version
Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.
Complete Jewish Bible
So teach us to count our days, so that we will become wise.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.
George Lamsa Translation
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Hebrew Names Version
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
New Life Bible
Teach us to understand how many days we have. Then we will have a heart of wisdom to give You.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.
English Revised Version
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us an heart of wisdom.
Berean Standard Bible
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
New Revised Standard
So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(89-12) Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
Lexham English Bible
So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
English Standard Version
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
New American Standard Bible
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
New Century Version
Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.
Good News Translation
Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
Christian Standard Bible®
Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make thi riythond so knowun; and make men lerned in herte bi wisdom.
Young's Literal Translation
To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Revised Standard Version
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Contextual Overview

12 Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom. 13 O Lord , come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants! 14 Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. 15 Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good. 16 Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory. 17 And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So: Psalms 39:4, Deuteronomy 32:29, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Luke 12:35-40, John 9:4, Ephesians 5:16, Ephesians 5:17

that: Job 28:28, Proverbs 2:2-6, Proverbs 3:13-18, Proverbs 4:5, Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 7:1-4, Proverbs 8:32-36, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 18:1, Proverbs 18:2, Proverbs 22:17, Proverbs 23:12, Proverbs 23:23

apply our hearts: Heb. cause our hearts to come

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:28 - the whole age Job 15:20 - the number Psalms 119:84 - How Proverbs 4:20 - General Proverbs 19:20 - be Lamentations 3:27 - bear Colossians 4:5 - Walk

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, and a moderate skill in arithmetic, will enable persons not only to count the years of their lives, but even how many days they have lived: nor is this to be understood of calculating or reckoning of time to come; no man can count the number of days he has to live; the number of his days, months, and years, is with the Lord; but is hid from him: the living know they shall die; but know not how long they shall live, and when they shall die: this the Lord teaches not, nor should we be solicitous to know: but rather the meaning of the petition is, that God would teach us to number our days, as if the present one was the last; for we cannot boast of tomorrow; we know not but this day, or night, our souls may be required of us: but the sense is, that God would teach us seriously to meditate on, and consider of, the shortness of our days; that they are but as a shadow, and there is no abiding; and the vanity and sinfulness of them, that so we may not desire to live here always; and the troubles and sorrows of them, which may serve to wean us from the world, and to observe how unprofitably we have spent them; which may put us upon redeeming time, and also to take notice of the goodness of God, that has followed us all our days, which may lead us to repentance, and engage us in the fear of God:

that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom; to consider our latter end, and what will become of us hereafter; which is a branch of wisdom so to do; to seek the way of salvation by Christ; to seek to Christ, the wisdom of God, for it; to fear the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom; and to walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise; to all which an application of the heart is necessary; for wisdom is to be sought for heartily, and with the whole heart: and to this divine teachings are requisite, as well as to number our days; for unless a man is taught of God, and by his Spirit convinced of sin, righteousness, and judgment, he will never be concerned, in good earnest, about a future state; nor inquire the way of salvation, nor heartily apply to Christ for it: he may number his days, and consider the shortness of them, and apply his heart to folly, and not wisdom; see Isaiah 22:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 number; the rapidity with which they pass away; the liability to be cut down; the certainty that they must soon come to an end; their bearing on the future state of being.

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom - Margin, “Cause to come.” We will bring, or cause to come, a heart of wisdom. By taking a just account of life, that we may bring to it a heart truly wise, or act wisely in view of these facts. The prayer is, that God would enable us to form such an estimate of life, that we shall be truly wise; that we may be able to act “as if” we saw the whole of life, or as we should do if we saw its end. God sees the end - the time, the manner, the circumstances in which life will close; and although he has wisely hidden that from us, yet he can enable us to act as if we saw it for ourselves; to have the same objects before us, and to make as much of life, “as if” we saw when and how it would close. If anyone knew when, and where, and how he was to die, it might be presumed that this would exert an important influence on him in forming his plans, and on his general manner of life. The prayer is, that God would enable us to act “as if” we had such a view.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 90:12. So teach us to number our days — Let us deeply consider our own frailty, and the shortness and uncertainty of life, that we may live for eternity, acquaint ourselves with thee, and be at peace; that we may die in thy favour and live and reign with thee eternally.


 
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