 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 páginas
...3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days us an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 páginas
...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The sum and substance indeed of his request is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
 | 1842 - 982 páginas
...sphere. The force of this truth was felt by the psalmist, who, though king over Israel, exclaimed, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee ; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity." Nay, an elevation above the general level of society,... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 páginas
...determined ; the number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what is it ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, and mine... | |
 | 1826 - 938 páginas
...these ! and how far wiser the man, who, considering his latter end, offers the Psalmist's prayer, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." (Ps. xxxix. 4.) But again, the man, who would rightly number his days, will be chiefly anxious to do... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 páginas
...me. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know * how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; i>ere. and mine age is as nothing before thee:... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 páginas
...their endeavours and prayers for the attainment of it. David prays thus: ' Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days what it is: that I may know how frail I am.'k It is not to be understood as if he desired to know, in a literal sense, what year or day his... | |
 | 1858 - 726 páginas
...the past, and that upon the opening of every new era, it comes unto us, with the full imprimature, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee" (Psal. xxxix. 5) ; and the whole of earth's endowments consists in the one dissolving view, "We (spend... | |
 | 1822 - 814 páginas
...Worship Street, by Mr. David Eaton, to a most numerous and respectable audience, from 1'salm xxxix. 5 : " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is ax nothing before thee ;" the conclusion of which appeared iu the last Number of this Repository. [XVI.... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1827 - 410 páginas
...therefore, with much propriety be said, We are fearfully made. The Psalmist prays, O make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the vanity... | |
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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
