 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 640 páginas
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4*. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VOL. II.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 páginas
...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 e thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (K) CHAP. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; andinine age is as nothing before thee ; verily... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 páginas
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VoL. II.... | |
 | 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,...nothing before thee ; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity." Nay, an elevation above the general level of society, often marks out... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 páginas
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; camp, xc, 9, 10. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodlincss thereof is as the flower... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 páginas
...also as a shadow, and continuethnot, liv. 1, Î. Behold, tliou hast made my days at an handbreath, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at hie beet state is altogether vanity. Selah , Peal, xxxix. 5. Remember how short my time is : wherefore... | |
 | Laurance Wieder - 1999 - 338 páginas
...then spake I with my tongue, KING JAMES VERSION Psalm 39 247 KING JAMES VERSION Psalm 40 248 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;...every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up... | |
 | Janette Turner Hospital - 1999 - 424 páginas
...to know mine end,' Mercy read from the lectern of the Living Word Gospel Hall. 'Make me to know mind end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am.' She lifted her eyes from the page and looked out the window. Across the road, people loitered under... | |
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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. 
