 | Thomas Searle - Prayer - 1834 - 284 pages
...grave ? Remember how short my time is. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain, Psalm Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction; 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... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 496 pages
...being. There is a Sovereign of life, and he is absolute. It is God, in whose hand our breath is. " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return ye children of men." The reasons of his determinations with respect to life are unsearchably hidden. His thoughts and ways... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...art, О God I Thon turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou carries! them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which springeth up. . In the morning it flouiisheth and groweth up : in the evening it is cut down and withered.... | |
 | Richard Waldo Sibthorp - 1836 - 210 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 6. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ;...the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 7. In the morning itflourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. xc. 4,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Reformed Church - 1836 - 458 pages
...expressions which Moses employs to trace the image of the life of the Israelites in the preceding context: " Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men: thou earnest them away as with a flood: they are as asleep: in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | 1836 - 108 pages
...its dissolution. See, for a parallel, Ps. cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. 3. " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,... | |
 | William Cogswell - Families - 1836 - 380 pages
...days, and the number of his months are with thee. Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep, in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, Thou turnest man to destruction 1 and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 438 pages
...its dissolution. See, for a parallel, Ps. cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Thou...Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are «.va sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and... | |
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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. 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... 
