 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 sider
...lift up our hands and hearts, without ceasing unto God, and say unto him with the royal Psalmist, " Lord, make " me to know mine end, and the measure...days, " what it is ; that I may know how frail I am," Psal. xxxix. 4 ; and with the prophet Moses, " So teach us to " number our days, that we may apply... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 sider
...teaches us by his Spirit. This we must pray for most fervently. Thus David, (Psal. xxxix. 4,) " LOuD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He does not ask to know how long he should live, and when he should die. He could not in faith pray... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1829 - 304 sider
...shepherd to be a king. Shall 1 hegin ? 39th Psalm 4th verse : " Lori/, make me to kftozv mine end, awl the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am." M. Do not you think it strange that David should wish to know " the measure of his days," that is,... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 sider
...how long he has to live ;" that he may know and feel how short a space even the longest life affords for the exercise of piety and obedience ; and that...among us, who knows that he is " a stranger only and a sojourner upon earth, as all his fathers were." The entreaty is this, " O spare me a little that I... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 sider
...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 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 VoL. II.... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 sider
...3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days us an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 640 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 VOL. II.... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 sider
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 938 sider
...these ! and how far wiser the man, who, considering his latter end, offers the Psalmist's prayer, " 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.) But again, the man, who would rightly number his days, will be chiefly anxious to do... | |
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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. 
