 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...  The silent pastor: or Consolations for the sick - Page 82by Thomas Sadler - 1847Full view - About this book
 | James Marsh - 1830 - 946 pages
...man, are often literally and precisely verified : " He is like the grass, in the morning it flourishes and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." 3. Death is a prevalent insuperable evil : Hence the proverbial expression, Strong as death, that subdues... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...then we feelingly assent to the truth of the observations, made by the holy Moralist ; " Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep :...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." b This comparison of the space of human life with the time, in which herbs of the field are permitted... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1831 - 424 pages
...with a flood, — they are as a sleep, — they are like the grass which groweth up in the morning ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, — in the evening it is cut down and withereth. Many generations have already passed away since that hour when the heavens and the earth arose ; they... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." We are " as a sleep; or as grass: in the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." The foundation of this sentiment is obvious. Men do not live for ever. The longest duration of human... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 614 pages
...is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." We are " as a sleep ; or as grass : in the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." The foundation of this sentiment is obvious. Men do not live for ever. The longest duration of human... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in...up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...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...up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. —and the later, sadly canonical "the days of our years are threescore years and ten" (Psalm 90.10).... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in...flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and vvithereth. —and the later, sadly canonical "the days of our years are threescore years and ten"... | |
 | Thomas Howard - 1997 - 276 pages
...caliph? Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher. Thou turnest man to destruction. [He is] like grass. ... In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in...down, and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told, says the psalmist. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. ... It is a tale, told by an idiot,... | |
 | Thomas Howard - 1997 - 276 pages
...the Preacher. Thou turnest man to destruction. [He is] like grass. ... In the morning it flourished!, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told, says the psalmist. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. ... It is a tale, told by an idiot,... | |
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