 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.  Prayers for public worship - Pagina 182di Robert Lee - 1858 - 275 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 pagine
...their endeavours and prayers for the attainment of it. David prays thus: ' Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days what it is: that I may know how frail I am.'k It is not to be understood as if he desired to know, in a literal sense, what year or day his... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pagine
...the past, and that upon the opening of every new era, it comes unto us, with the full imprimature, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee" (Psal. xxxix. 5) ; and the whole of earth's endowments consists in the one dissolving view, "We (spend... | |
 | George Bull - 1827 - 518 pagine
...of his grace, which therefore ought to be sought for by humble and earnest prayer. PSALM xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. P. 472. ERRATA. P. 34. note, line 4, read In Exod. Horn. VI. §. 6. 67. note X. 1. xftirrati 76. note,... | |
 | George Bull - 1827 - 514 pagine
...of his grace, which therefore ought to be sought for by humble and earnest prayer. PSALM xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know hotv frail I am. P. 472. ERRATA. P. 34. note, line 4, read In Exod. Horn. VI. 6. 6. 67. note x. 1.... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1827 - 410 pagine
...therefore, with much propriety be said, We are fearfully made. The Psalmist prays, O make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the vanity... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pagine
...realizing view of the shortness and uncertainty of life. "Lord, make me to know mine end," says he, " and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Brethren, may we feel the just force of the wishes here expressed ! May we so learn to " number our... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pagine
...I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, an<i nd she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them, Get you to th 6 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing t>eibre thee : verily... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1828 - 390 pagine
...in the sacred song from which I have taken my text. In the verses immediately succeeding he says, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...every man at his best state is altogether vanity." Indeed we do not know how vain we are, nor how vain our* most anxious employments arc, till we reflect... | |
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