Psalms 90:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Psalms 90:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:16-17
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. …
Psalms 39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

These are the petitions of this prayer, grounded upon the foregoing meditations and acknowledgments. Isa. any afflicted? Let him learn thus to pray. Four things they are here directed to pray for:— I. For a sanctified use of the sad dispensation they were now under. Being condemned to have our days shortened, “ Lord, teach us to number our days (Ps. 90:12); Lord, give us grace duly to consider how…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. This he prays we may know or understand, so as properly to number or appreciate the shortness of our days, that we may be wise.