...realizing view of the shortness and uncertainty of life. "Lord, make me to know mine end," says he, " and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Brethren, may we feel the just force of the wishes here expressed ! May we so learn to " number our...

...I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, an<i nd she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them, Get you to th 6 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing t>eibre thee : verily...

...grace, which therefore we ought by prayer humbly and earnestly to ask of him. So David doth in my text; Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, &c. One would think this were a needless prayer ; for who knows not that he must die, and that the...

...this world. But it is questioned what the thing distinctly is for which David prays in these words, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. Some have thought that he prays for a special revelation from God of the time of his death, taken either...

...in the sacred song from which I have taken my text. In the verses immediately succeeding he says, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity." Indeed we do not know how vain we are, nor how vain...

...preserve me from trouble: thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether...

...For I am ashamed of the sins I have desired, and am confounded for the pleasures that I have chosen. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am, and that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord : let...

...: 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spat I with my tongue. 4 nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he lov 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as no thing before thee : verily...

...that our days are numbered. We are given in abundance what the psalmists craved: a chance to glimpse "the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am" (Ps 39:4). The journal, more than anything else, is a compendium of stories that tell of the irrepressible...

...him. "My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbrcadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether...