 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? 19 There is none that can deliver out of thine hand. ^f20 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 21 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily... | |
 | Jean La Placette - 1833 - 442 pages
...our hearts unto wisdom," is the prayer of Moses ; and similar to it is that of the Psalmist, — " LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." (Ps. xc. xxxix.) Nevertheless, however proper may be this duty, there are three descriptions of people... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 708 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, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 698 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, thou hast made my days as an handbreadih ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pages
...xvii. 1 . My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves are ready for me. Ps. xxxix. 4, 5. 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 an handbrcadth, and mine age is as notliing before thcc: verily every... | |
 | 1834 - 400 pages
...to awake out of sleep. Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Oh that they were wise, that... | |
 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pages
...Chron. xxix. 15. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever! Zech. i. 5. 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 an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : Surely... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 986 pages
...Psalmist, " I was dumb with silence ; I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned ; then spake I with my tongue." Should it be tried by the true children of a respected parent, by the fond wife of an adored hushand,... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 pages
...the wicked is before me. 2. 1 was dumb with silence: I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. 3. My heart was hot within me ; while...how frail I am. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 358 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...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 concerning... | |
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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. 
