 | Hours - Death - 1839 - 232 pages
...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 groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered). We spend our years as a tale that is told." It is true, when we compare the longest... | |
 | Edward William Hooker - Missions - 1840 - 424 pages
...overlooks the garden, and B. is mowing the grass in the adjoining lane. ' In the morning it flourished! and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth.' How true of life \ Events long anticipated follow in quick succession, and in the retrospect appear... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 374 pages
...hallelujahs has welcomed an aged servant of the Redeemer to the mansions of the blessed! It is written, " The days of our years are threescore and ten, and...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow;" but the aged pilgrim who has just entered into '' that rest that remaineth for the people of God,"... | |
 | Oxford movement - 1841 - 362 pages
...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 groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." " So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." " We spend our years as... | |
 | John Harding (bp. of Bombay.) - 1841 - 308 pages
...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 groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." It was this sight of human frailty that led the man of God to solemn meditation, and to fervent prayer.... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 234 pages
...time has done for me it will soon do for you—ay, soon; for, what says the Psalmist? " We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...pieces, marked alike by sweetness of versification, and tender and Christian feeling. HUMAN LIFE. < In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth."—Ps. xe. 6. 1 WALKED the fields at morning's prime, The grass was ripe for mowing;... | |
 | Reinhold Niebuhr - Religion - 1986 - 292 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - Social Science - 1993 - 232 pages
...extent” of its destruction¿'° We experience our mortality. Thousands of years ago, the psalmist wrote, The days of our years are threescore and ten; and...their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away¿” We know life one day at a time. Would we know the grief and loneliness of... | |
 | James Peter Burkholder - Music - 1995 - 572 pages
...it must be meant to illustrate the text. Comparing men to grass, the psalm's sixth verse says, “In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.” The second half of this verse is set to a melody derived from Louis Moreau Gottschalk's The Last Hope... | |
| |
the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in -the evening it is cut down, and withereth. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength... 
