 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 mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.  Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship - Page 203by General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States - 1855 - 899 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Whichcote - Theology - 1751 - 418 pages
...mine end ; and the meafiire of my days what it is : that I may know how frail I am. Beholdi thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man, at his b.'/t ejlate, is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk' eth in a vain /hew, furely they are difquieted... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - Bible - 1786 - 348 pages
...introduces the exclamation that hath been chofen for the prefent fubjedt of our thoughts; Behold thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee ; verily every man, at his bejl Jiate, is altogether vanity ! He entreats his Creator to make him thoroughly fenfible of the end... | |
 | Missions - 1810 - 582 pages
...days- This measure, this short dttrution, he seems to allude to in the following verse : • — ( Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing "before thee !' It becomes us often to consider how near we are to the end of life. The measure of our days is determined... | |
 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 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...nothing before thee : verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity," Psalm xxxix. 4, 5. THE MUSEUM AT THE INDIA HOUSE, THE stranger, in visiting... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...tree 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...nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship, Mr. Mogridge... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 504 pages
...empty 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...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.] In which he does not desire a response from God, about the day of his death, but instruction concerning... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...friends concerninff 4 them, but to God. LORD, make me to know, that is, consider and reflect upon, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is ; that] I may know how frail I [am,] and so be less concerned at the misery I have to endure, or the prosperity of the wicked that t I eee.... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...return. 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...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh, and nine age is as nothing before thee ;... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...are 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...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 unto wisdom. Amen. "f CHAP. V. Zeal inculcated.... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...contemplating endless duration, should compare this fleeting life 1o things of the shortest continuance. " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee." This is a subject which every man should deeply ponder in his heart, that he may learn those lessons... | |
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