 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...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 - Theology - 1825 - 640 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 VOL. II.... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...sphere. The force of this truth was felt by the psalmist, who, though king over Israel, exclaimed, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth,...nothing before thee ; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity." Nay, an elevation above the general level of society, often marks out... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; camp, xc, 9, 10. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodlincss thereof is as the flower... | |
 | Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 572 pages
...also as a shadow, and continuethnot, liv. 1, Î. Behold, tliou hast made my days at an handbreath, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at hie beet state is altogether vanity. Selah , Peal, xxxix. 5. Remember how short my time is : wherefore... | |
 | George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...me. 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 as an handbreadth ; i>ere. and mine age is as nothing before thee:... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...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... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - Creation - 1999 - 174 pages
...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...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbrcadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether... | |
 | Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1999 - 338 pages
...then spake I with my tongue, KING JAMES VERSION Psalm 39 247 KING JAMES VERSION Psalm 40 248 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;...every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up... | |
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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. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
