| Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 sider
...tree fell on him, and crushed him, and occasioned his death. Though he was taken, I am still left. ' 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 handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 504 sider
...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... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 sider
...friends concerninff 4 them, but to God. LORD, make me to know, that is, consider and reflect upon, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is ; that] I may know how frail I [am,] and so be less concerned at the misery I have to endure, or the prosperity of the wicked that t I eee.... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sider
...return. xvii. 1. My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves are ready for inc. Ps. xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh, and nine age is as nothing before thee ;... | |
| Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 sider
...are favoured with for the advancement of divine knowledge. Lift up your heart to heaven, and say, " 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 me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Amen. "f CHAP. V. Zeal inculcated.... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 sider
...are Jearfatty made." 4f/2/y, In respect of our frailty. The same may be said, The Psalmist prays, " O make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." The scripture, to express the vanity and... | |
| 1811 - 706 sider
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. 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 : verily every... | |
| 1811 - 982 sider
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 sider
...fixed and limited, our days are determined, and our months numbered. Hence David prays, Psal. xxxix. 4. ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.' Our days are measured ; they are as the days of an hireling. As the hireling hath a set time to work... | |
| George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 sider
...God, and the ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that / may know how frail I am. Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect... | |
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