Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 90:12
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.
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.
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,...
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;...
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...
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...
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....
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....
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
לִ מְנֹ֣ות יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הֹודַ֑ע וְ֝ נָבִ֗א
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
APPLY: _ Heb._ cause to come...
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...
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...
Psalms 90:12 teach H3045 (H8685) number H4487 (H8800) days H3117 gain H935 (H8686) heart H3824 wisdom...
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...
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...
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...
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...
«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...
«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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 90:1. This community lament relates to some unspecified disaster (vv. Psalms 90:13,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:29; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ephesians 5:16; Ephesians 5:17;...