 | John Stanford - 1829 - 474 pagina’s
...21. Cast me not off in the time of old age ; forsake me not when my strength faileth. Psalm Ixxi. 9. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age as nothing K«»fnre thee. Spare me... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pagina’s
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; comp. xc, 9, 10. " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1829 - 434 pagina’s
...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 arn. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the... | |
 | Thomas Watson - 1830 - 154 pagina’s
...Psal. xxxix. 3. David was meditating on mortality, and see how his heart was affected with it, ver. 4. " Lord, make me to know mine end and the measure...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The reason our affections are so chill and cold in spiritual things, is, because we do not warm ourselves... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 722 pagina’s
...near in words, and of kin, it seems, in sense to this here ; Lord, prays he, make me to PS. know my end, and the measure of my days, what*' it is, that I may know how frail I am: concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvious to conceive that both... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1830 - 272 pagina’s
...that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." " Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that 1 may know how frail I am." " And now, Lord, what wait I for, my hope is in thee. Hear my prayer, O... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1831 - 400 pagina’s
...remembrance : ' My heart was hot within me ; while I mused the fire burned; then spake I with my tongue : Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold ! Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee : verily every... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pagina’s
...need of calling upon God to teach and impress this upon him, for he could not realize it otherwise : "Lord, make me to know mine end; and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." It is the Lord only that can form in us, by his Spirit, a just appreciation of our latter end. David... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pagina’s
...past, and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm: "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."f 1. Every... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pagina’s
...sorrows, may be briefly comprehended in these few sentences : " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee...every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain.: he heapeth up riches,... | |
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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. 
