 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.  Littell's Living Age - Page vi1855Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 606 pages
...considered a beautiful proof of the accuracy of holy writ, when it declares that " the days of our years arc three-score years and ten ; and if, by reason of strength,...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and iceßy away." If we adopt the proportion who are above 70 years, as the standard of longevity, it would... | |
 | 1846 - 508 pages
...who died Oct. 31, at the venerable age of CIV years and six months, by REv. JR SCOTT. Tin- days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...be fourscore years. yet is their strength labor and sorrovs: for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. — PSALMS xc : 10. It is an extraordinary occasion,... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 532 pages
...whole lifetime is very short. From the cradle to the grave is bufc a short journey : " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." The half of men die before the age of twenty. Even when men lived for many hundred years,... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1847 - 564 pages
...nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 90 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off) and we fly away. 103 ; 15 As for man, his daya are as grass : as a flower of 11* 125 Death often sudden—... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 480 pages
...delay. " Escape for thy life : look not behind thee." I. Because life is very short. — "The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." Even those who live longest, when they come to die, look back on their life as upon a... | |
 | George Putnam - 1848 - 38 pages
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? even according to thy fear so is thy wrath.... | |
 | 1848 - 348 pages
...passed away | in thy | wrath : We spend our years as a | tale that | is — | told. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off | and we | fly a- j way. 11. Who knoweth the power | of thine | anger : Even according to thy | fear, so... | |
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - 208 pages
...in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O Lord,... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...delay. "Escape for thy life : look not behind thee." I. Because life is very short. — "The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." Even those who live longest, when they come to die, look back on their life as upon a... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1848 - 702 pages
...hast set our iniquities before thee ; our secret sins hi the light of thy countenance. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if, by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Yet who considereth the power of thine anger ; who, with due reverence, regardeth thine... | |
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