 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 sider
...the ominous reminder of sergeant death is set in the unavoidable and timeless language of the psalms: 'Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.' (Psalm 39,4) The archaic resonance of such a passage certainly embraces the more circumscribed questions... | |
 | Karl Anderson - 1996 - 532 sider
...Testament regarding fate. t? See Psa. xxxix. 4; xc. 12 ; Jer. x. 23 ; Job iii. 23 ; vii. ' ; xiv. 5. 14" 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." " O 'Lord, I know that... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...his name that sat on him was Death. BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT, St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8. 7 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. BIBLE: HEBREW, Psalms, 39:4. 8 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? BIBLE: NEW... | |
 | Roger Campbell - 1996 - 140 sider
...been most conscious of all the Old Testament writers about the need of using time wisely. He prayed, "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" (Ps. 39:4-5).... | |
 | Victor Emeljanow - 1997 - 542 sider
...wonderful things have come from the East - Chekhov is not the least of them. 'Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my days what it is, that I may know how frail I am. ' 83. VIRGINIA WOOLF IN 'NEW STATESMAN' 24 July 1920, 446 ...There is nothing in English literature... | |
 | David Loxterkamp - 1997 - 338 sider
...that our days are numbered. We are given in abundance what the psalmists craved: a chance to glimpse "the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am" (Ps 39:4). The journal, more than anything else, is a compendium of stories that tell of the irrepressible... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - 1999 - 174 sider
...him. "My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 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 nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Janette Turner Hospital - 1999 - 424 sider
...to know mine end,' Mercy read from the lectern of the Living Word Gospel Hall. 'Make me to know mind end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am.' She lifted her eyes from the page and looked out the window. Across the road, people loitered under... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 sider
...stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, 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... | |
 | Walter Hilton - 2001 - 216 sider
...there were nothing now but Jesus. This is the sort of meekness demonstrated by David when he said: "Lord, 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: verily, every... | |
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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. 
