For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday 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 up. In the morning it flourisheth, and... Aspirations of the World: A Chain of Opals - Page 791878 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1836 - 316 pages
...elder son was reading a Psalm to his attentive little congregation. It was the 90th, and the verse, " Thou hast set our iniquities before thee ; our secret sins in the light of thy countenance," smote the heart of Maurice. He listened to the end, and wished it had been longer;... | |
| 1836 - 462 pages
...hast shewed tLy people hard things : Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. Ps. Ix. 3. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee ; Our * secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Ps. xc. 8. With shouting in the day of battle ; With a whirlwind in the day of tempest.... | |
| 1836 - 108 pages
...experience, join to assure us : yet who ordereth his life and conversation as if he believed it ? 7. " For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled." 8. " Thou hast set our iniquities before thee; our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." The... | |
| Ann Sophia Stephens - 1836 - 326 pages
...which ignorance, prejudice and self-love place between them and us. The Psalmist, addressing God, says, thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance, that is, our iniquities or open transgressions, and our secret sins, the sins of our... | |
| William Cogswell - 1836 - 380 pages
...the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed in thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale, that is told. In thy righteous providence, thou hast commissioned... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 564 pages
...own house, $c. 2 Sam. xii. 10, 11. How full and clear is that complaint of Moses, the man of God ! We are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are...iniquities before thee ; our secret sins in the light of thy countenance t Ps. xc. 7, 8. And Jeremiah, to the same purpose, We have transgressed and have rebelled... | |
| Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - 1837 - 284 pages
...punishment, it seems to him that his sins come up again before God, and he is compelled to say with Moses, " Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." Ps. xc. 8. But as soon as he becomes sincere, — as soon as he ceases to flatter... | |
| 1837 - 556 pages
...up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in. the light of thy countenance. 9 For... | |
| Johannes Zollikofer - 1837 - 722 pages
...; dangers alarm us ; infirmities oppress us ; disappointments afflict us ; losses impoverish us — we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled — O, shut not thy merciful ear from our prayers; but spare us, O Lord, most holy : O God, most mighty... | |
| Affliction - 1838 - 392 pages
...just punishment, it seems to him that his sins come up again before God, and he can say with Moses, " Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance," Psalm xc. 8. But, as soon as the sinner becomes sincere ; as soon as he ceases to... | |
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