| Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 460 pages
...manner in which death so often overtakes us, in a moment when we think not of it. And then he adds, " They are as a sleep; in the morning they are like...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." How apt and striking a description this, both as to time and manner, of the scene through which we... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...ever 'asting', thou art God'. Thou turnest man to destruction'; and sayest', " Return', ye children of men'." For a thousand- years in thy sight', are...is past', and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest men away as with a flood'. They are as a sleep': in the morning', they are like grass which groweth... | |
| General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1842 - 408 pages
...everlasting to everlasting, thou art GOD. Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight Are but...when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; They are as a sleep : In trie morning they are like grass which... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 514 pages
...altogether vanity." In another psalm he bewails the shortness of man's life before God. " Thou carriest him away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourished!, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." And again he says, "As... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...his soul from the hand of the grave ? Selah.— Ps. Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction, &c. they are like grass which groweth up : in the morning...flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered, &c. The days of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by reason of strength... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and nx a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep :...the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 pages
...everlasting to everlasting, thou art GOD. Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but...when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood, They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which growetn... | |
| Reinhold Niebuhr - 1986 - 292 pages
...everlasting to everlasting, thou art God Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but...up., in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled Thou hast set our iniquities before... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pages
...trod? How long thy temples worshipless, Oh God? man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but...when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth... | |
| Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 pages
...everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but...when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth... | |
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