 | 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... | |
 | George Young - 1832 - 256 pages
...cut down." " All flesh is us grass, and all thegoodliness thereof is as the flower of the field." " In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth."* Such also are all human enjoyments. While our hopes are fair and hlooming, and we are promising ourselves... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...away as with a flood; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up : 28 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. SECTION XXI.—Of Death. LESSON CXX. MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.... | |
 | George Horne - 1833 - 438 pages
...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 cut down, and withereth." The shortness of life, and the suddenness of our departure hence, are illustrated by three similitudes.... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 340 pages
...in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are as asleep : In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth...groweth 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... | |
 | 1836 - 658 pages
...acquired a new language, when we know that '" • ,. ' - • . • . 1 Native expression. man " is as the grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth...up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." And those who are in some degree acquainted with English have no feelings touched by it. Take as an... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pages
...Thou earnest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep : 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. i. 4. One generation cometh, and another gocth. ii. 16. How dieth the wise man? as the fool.... | |
 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pages
...and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away with a flood: they are as a sleep. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if hy reason of strength they be fourscore... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 pages
...are as asleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6. In the morning it flonrisheth, aham his ma 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, oursecretsww in the lightof thy countenance. 9. For all... | |
 | Edwin Sidney - 1835 - 516 pages
...they are taken off with violence. " They are as a sleep, they fall insensibly into death. They are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth,...up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." How uncertain the life of man, in comparison with the unchangeableness of God ! He beholds worlds rising... | |
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest 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... 
