 | 1825 - 434 pages
...which is either general or special. The general limit is now seventy or eighty years: " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." To this short limit, the life of man is generally reduced since the flood: and though there be some... | |
 | 1826 - 478 pages
...transgressions for thy spiritual investigation. For all our days are consumed in thy wrath : we pass our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years...four-score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and rapidly departeth. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1826 - 278 pages
...the usual period of the life of man. HARRIETTE. 1 remember, in the 90th Psalm, he says " the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." So that David's age was most likely not greater than that of many persons of the present day, but it only... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1826 - 156 pages
...however, after a pause, he continued — " You know, Papa, time is at best very short : ' The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' But how many are called away so young — so young" —... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1827 - 710 pages
...of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in • Luke xii. 20. thy wrath ; we spend our years as a tale that is told The days of our years...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... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath ; we spend our years as a tale thai ts told. 10 The days of ly : it is his raimenl for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and il shall come to pass, when he : for it is soon cut off, and •wer of thine anger? thy wrath. jpowerof fear, so is we fly away. 11... | |
 | John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...ever to pass ; and if they should, what is their strength then, what is the body, what the mind, but labour and sorrow, so soon is it " cut off and we fly away." a long continuance in life, — who are DOW gone into eternity. Could the book of the divine decrees... | |
 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 pages
...contemplates our useless lives, which pass away as " a tale that is told." The tenth verse : " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." Here my soul is cast down, in contemplating how fleeting... | |
 | John Stanford - 1829 - 474 pages
...came to the tenth verse, I instantly thought of your birthday. The words are, the days of our yean are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off", and we Jly away. But, Madam, from the composure and cheerfulness of your... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 598 pages
...sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten : And it' by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it... | |
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We spend our years as a tale that is told. 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. 
