 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pages
...unsolemnized with considerations of life and death, time and eternity, has visited the place in vain. " 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... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pages
...fell on him, and crushed him, and occasioned his death. Though he was taken, I am still left. ' 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... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...xvii. 1. My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves are ready for inc. Ps. xxxix. 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. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh,... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...favoured with for the advancement of divine knowledge. Lift up your heart to heaven, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...fire with vehement heat in my breast, it broke forth into such expressions as these. ยป Ver. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it ; that I may know bow frail I um.~] Lord, I do not murmur nor repine at roy sufferings ;... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pages
...are Jearfatty made." 4f/2/y, In respect of our frailty. The same may be said, The Psalmist prays, " O make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity."... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...heart was hot within me, white I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LOUD, " what it ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst made my days as an handbreadth ; and... | |
 | 1811 - 706 pages
...will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. 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... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...have an end, and we must seriously consider that. Hence says the Psalmist, Psal. xxxix. 4. * Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Every thing that is numerable has an end ; and therefore eternity cannot be numbered, since... | |
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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. 
