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Psalms 90:12
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So teach us to number our days, that we may get us an heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.
So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.
So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Make thi riythond so knowun; and make men lerned in herte bi wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.
So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to count our days, so that we will become wise.
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
Teach us how short our lives are so that we can become wise.
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
So teach vs to number our daies: that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome.
Teach us to understand how many days we have. Then we will have a heart of wisdom to give You.
So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.
Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.
(89-12) Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Make vs to knowe so our dayes, that we number them: and we wyll frame a heart [vnto] wisdome.
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.
Teach us to number our days carefullyso that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.
To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.
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!
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
So teach us to number our days,That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Contextual Overview
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.
