 | Robert Leighton - 1828 - 302 σελίδες
...ye empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my 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... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1828 - 390 σελίδες
...sacred song from which I have taken my text. In the verses immediately succeeding he says, " 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 hand-breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 732 σελίδες
...preserve me from trouble: thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Lord, make me to know my 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 a handbreadth, and mine age is nothing before thee : verily every... | |
 | 1828 - 586 σελίδες
...that here we have no continuing city; but wisdom to listen to their voice is possessed by few. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, whit it is ; that I may know how frail I am. It is a way that we must tread alone. Friends may surround... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 σελίδες
...mortality, and our depravity — A natural man turns away from both these. But, says David, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." And, says Job, " Make me to know my transgression and my sin." To explore the offences of others, is... | |
 | John Stanford - 1829 - 474 σελίδες
...Cast me not off in the time of old age ; forsake me not when my strength faileth. Psalm Ixxi. 9. 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 as nothing K«»fnre thee. Spare me... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1829 - 434 σελίδες
...therefore, with much propriety be said, We are fearfully made. The Psalmist prays, O make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I arn. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 σελίδες
...heart was hot within m«; . ., i 111" was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it thai I may know bow trail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth ; and mine age... | |
 | Thomas Watson - 1830 - 154 σελίδες
...xxxix. 3. David was meditating on mortality, and see how his heart was affected with it, ver. 4. " Lord, make me to know mine end and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The reason our affections are so chill and cold in spiritual things, is, because we do not warm ourselves... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 722 σελίδες
...near in words, and of kin, it seems, in sense to this here ; Lord, prays he, make me to PS. know my end, and the measure of my days, what*' it is, that I may know how frail I am: concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvious to conceive that both... | |
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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. 
