 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pagina’s
...Chron. xxix. 15. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever! Zech. i. 5. 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 hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing... | |
 | 1835 - 524 pagina’s
...praises. Amen. " ' Teach me, O Lord, so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom.' " ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail 1 am.' " ' Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity !' " A CATECHISM... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pagina’s
...circuit unto the ends of it : and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. — Psalm xix. 1 — 6. 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 hand-breadth, and mine age is as... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 358 pagina’s
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.] In which he does not desire a response from God, about the day of his death,... | |
 | 1835 - 480 pagina’s
...and tombstones as he is ; however this may be, we shall each of us do well to put up the prayer, " 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 a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing... | |
 | 1836 - 108 pagina’s
...God, and the ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect... | |
 | E. W. Bullinger - 1999 - 2170 pagina’s
...stirred. 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 my days, what it is ; That I may know how ° frail 3 am. 5 ° Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine °age... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1990 - 548 pagina’s
...peace. Therefore do we wait for light, but behold obscurity for brightness, but we walk in darkness. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am, and that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Withhold not Thou thy tender... | |
 | David Appelbaum - 1993 - 218 pagina’s
...neither asleep nor awake reveals, by its negation of all possible action, how fragile our designs are. "Lord, make me to know mine end and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am" (Psalm 39.4). Thus sings David to the sleepless Saul. Do we hear a psalm... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pagina’s
...stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, 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... | |
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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. 
