 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...  Select specimens of English poetry - Page 337by Edward Hughes - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 438 pages
...looks back upon it, may appear only as three hours, or one quarter of the night. B 5. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; or, as grass that changeth. 6. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is... | |
 | Church history - 1837 - 844 pages
...f/om everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest шап to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men : for a thousand years in thy sight...and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away at with aßood." Called, as we lately have been, in the providence of God, to witness the most awful... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...from 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...when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are «.va sleep : in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...psalmist — " thou tumest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou earnest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep —...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourished! and groweth — in the evening it is cut down and withereth." Yes, my brethren, how many... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carries! them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep ; in...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... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 328 pages
...grave? 90": 3. Thou turnest man to destruction. — • 5. In the morning they are like grass that groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth. ECCL. 12: 7. The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God that... | |
 | William Cutter Hanscom - Sermons, American - 1838 - 226 pages
...immutability — and then proceeds to say — "Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight,...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told." I have selected these words for my text at this time, because... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...Psalmist, '• Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep: in...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourished! and groweth ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." Yes, my brethren, how many... | |
 | Richard Marks - Meditations - 1838 - 386 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. Thau earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep :...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it fiourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." — Psalm xc. 4 — 6.... | |
 | Hours - Death - 1839 - 230 pages
...what does the psalmist say— " It is soon cut off," he exclaims, " and we fly away." " Thou earnest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleep; in...groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told." It is true, when we compare the longest duration of man... | |
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