 | Old Humphrey - 1832 - 222 pages
...not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Psalm xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Matt. xxiv. 44. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 pages
...determined; the number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass 3 . 1 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee: verily every... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
...then I cannot too earnestly entreat you to offer, each of you for yourselves, the prayer of David, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am ! " And I beseech you to get his estimate of human life so graven on your hearts, that you may walk... | |
 | 1832 - 874 pages
...with a volume that contains some happy proofs, that the inspirations of the poet are NEW YEAR'S EVE. " 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. " LET us toll the knell, the funeral knell, The knell of the dying year" — They were... | |
 | 1832 - 628 pages
...unpretending volume, we select the following dirge on the death of the old year. NEW YEAR'S EVE. " li,i:l, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Ps. xxxix. 4. " LET us lull the knell, the funeral knell, The knell of the dying year" — They were... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm : " 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."f 1. Every... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...past, and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm: " 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."f 1. Every... | |
 | Robert Leighton, James Aikman - 1832 - 758 pages
...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 my days, what it is ; that I may know hour frail I am.] In which he does not desire a response from God, about the day of his death, but... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 734 pages
...a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm : " Make me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, tliou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every... | |
 | James Everett - 1832 - 414 pages
...whose feelings seemed to accord with those which stirred in the bosom of the Psalmist, when he said, " My heart was hot within me : while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue." There were two particulars which impressed the mind of Samuel, and which he afterwards "pondered in... | |
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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. 
