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Psalms 90:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. "
Psalms 90:12
Verse in Context
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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 apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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From This Chapter
Psalms 90:1
"[[A Prayer of Moses the man of God.]] Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations."
Psalms 90:2
"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
Psalms 90:3
"Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men."
Psalms 90:4
"For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."
Psalms 90:5
"Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up."
Psalms 90:6
"In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth."
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