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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;...
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IV. THE NUMBERS SECTION: BOOK FOUR: PSALM 90-106
The Ninetieth Psalm begins the fourth book of Psalms, corresponding in
different ways with the book of Numbers. It opens with the only Psalm
written by...
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BOOK IV. PSS. XC.- CVI.
XC. Man's Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God.
Psalms 90:1. The nothingness of man's life, the eternity of God's
life.
Psalms 90:7. It is the sinfulness of man w...
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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....
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_So teach_us] _So_then, as Thy fear (Psalms 90:11) which is "the
beginning of wisdom" requires, _make_us _know_how &c.: give us that
discernment which we lack.
_that we may apply_&c. That we may get u...
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Human life is at best brief and uncertain; and Israel's life is being
spent under the cloud of God's wrath for the punishment of its sins....
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DISCOURSE: 651
GOD’S ANGER A REASON FOR TURNING TO HIM
Psalms 90:11. _Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to
thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may
ap...
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THE PSALMS
BOOK THE FOURTH[264]
[264] See Table II., _ante._
PSALMS 90
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Prayer Against the Dominion of Death.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 90:1-2, A Foundation for Prayer, sough...
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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, kno...
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Psalms 90:106
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
INTRODUCTION
Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the
psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a
title in DARK...
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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
intel...
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לִ מְנֹ֣ות יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הֹודַ֑ע
וְ֝ נָבִ֗א
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Psalms 90:1
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 felt stra...
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THE MESSAGE OF THE PASSING YEARS
Psalms 90:1
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
stamped upon...
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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 et...
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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....
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_Stone. He alludes to nurses. (Calmet) --- All these expressions are
metaphorical, to shew the assistance given by angels, to remove the
obstacles which impede our progress towards heaven._...
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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, and...
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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 understandin...
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BOOK 4 - PSALMS 90-106
The fourth Book is not so markedly separated from the third, as the
preceding three from one another; and specially the third from the
first two, because the third, while prophe...
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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...
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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, becaus...
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_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, an...
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So teach us to number our days, giving us the proper understanding
that we realize the uncertainty of human life, knowing that every day
may be our last day here on earth, THAT WE MAY APPLY OUR HEARTS...
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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 conseque...
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APPLY:
_ Heb._ cause to come...
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12-17 Those who would learn true wisdom, must pray for Divine
instruction, must beg to be taught by the Holy Spirit; and for comfort
and joy in the returns of God's favour. They pray for the mercy of...
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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. _To number our...
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Psalms 90:12 teach H3045 (H8685) number H4487 (H8800) days H3117 gain
H935 (H8686) heart H3824 wisdom...
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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
shifting...
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Psalms 90:7
I. In this passage we find: (1) an exercise of penitential faith or
believing repentance; (2) an exercise of believing appropriation and
assurance.
II. The three petitions in Psalms 90:16...
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Psalms 90:12
The great mistake, perhaps, that people make when they reflect on the
probable time they shall live in the body, is to think of their life
on earth as the only life they have. We should n...
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Psalms 90:1 is entitled «A Prayer of Moses the man of God,» and it
furnishes a suitable prayer for every man of God. Any men of God who
have had experience as deep, and trying, and varied as that of M...
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«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» I think this Psalm has been
very much misunderstood, because the title has been forgotten. It is
not a Psalm for us in its entirety: it cannot be read by the Chris...
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«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» It is well to know the author,
because it helps you to an understanding of the psalm. Remember that
Moses lived in the midst of a pilgrim people who were dwelling...
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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 gen...
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CONTENTS: The frailty of man and his consequent need of being
submitted to God's sentences.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: Men are dying creatures and all their comforts in the
world are likewi...
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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...
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_So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom._
MAN IMPLORING THE MERCY OF GOD
Moses prays--
I. For a right estimate as to the duration of life. “Teach us to
number our...
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_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 tim...
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COUNTING OUR DAYS
So teach us to number our days, That we may get us an heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12.
I expect you all like having birthdays. It is nice to have birthday
letters and birthday presen...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to
some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:12 TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS. In view of
the psalm’s theme, this refers especially to the ability to make the
most of one’s days, since they are so few. The HEART OF WISDOM w...
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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 kernel...
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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 time of Da...
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Psa 90:1-17 is a psalm of Moses. Now Moses was also a writer and he
wrote psalms and songs, and this is one of the psalms of Moses.
LORD [or Jehovah], thou hast been our dwelling place in all
generat...
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Deuteronomy 32:29; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ephesians 5:16; Ephesians 5:17;...
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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....