 | 1822 - 792 sider
...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days ; what it is, that I may know how frail I am. The sum and substance, indeed, of his request, is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
 | 1863 - 1198 sider
...distinctly rise again to memory. But vain is the pride of beauty. The rose fades, and the lily is soiled. " 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 548 sider
...For I am ashamed of the sins I have desired, and am confounded for the pleasures that I have chosen. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am, and that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord : let... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 sider
...surely every man is vanity. (39 P. 11.) ,12. Does he pray to be made sensible of his own frailty ? Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know bow frail I am. 'Beheld, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before... | |
 | 1840 - 520 sider
...of the immortal triumphs which remain for it in futurity; it will be with you, as with the Psalmist: "My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing the fire burned ; then spake I with my tongue." — Ethcridge'a Misericordia. REFLECTIONS ON THE VASTNESS OF THE STARRY UNIVERSE. THE present time... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 146 sider
...and quiet.Therefore 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. Jam. 4. 13, 14. Prov. 27. 1. Job 21. 23. Mat. 24. 44. Ps. 39. 4. || Gen. 3. 19. and 27. 2. 1 Sam. 20.... | |
 | 1823 - 154 sider
...: surely every man is vanity. (39 P. 11.) 12. Does he pray to be made sensible of his own frailty? 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,... | |
 | Robert South - 1823 - 610 sider
...that this way of thinking had the like effect upon David, but upon a better subject, in Psalm xxxix. 3, My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue. We see here the gradation by which this holy man's thoughts led his zeal up to its full height. In... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 410 sider
...more must it have done so, in the soul of him who lived and died only for the salvation of sinners ! . 3. ' My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue.' The fire of divine charity, thus prevented from diffusing itself, for the illumination and warmth of... | |
 | 1839 - 248 sider
...him, so that one hour he raged with heat and thirst, and the next his teeth chattered with cold. " 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 hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
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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. 
