 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and .as a watch in the night. 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...  Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes - Page 275redigeeritud poolt - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 lehte
...over the stage of time, and are swept down with the besom of destruction, and the scythe of time: " In the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." Psa. xc. 5, 6. "As for man, his days are as grass, — as the flower of the field, so he flourished.... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 lehte
...a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 6 In the morning it flourishelh, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withered). 7 For... | |
 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 lehte
...contemplation of the glorious Creator and maker of heaven and earth. The fifth verse is : " Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are as a sleep : in...the morning they are like grass, which groweth up." And the sixth verse adds : " In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 lehte
...his soul from the hand of the grave ? Selah.— Ps. Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest men to destruction, &c. they are like grass which groweth up : in the morning...flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cutdown and withered, &c. Thedays of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by reason of strength... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1876 - 444 lehte
...everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but...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... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - 1829 - 654 lehte
...flourishing state of man in youth, and his decay in the time of age; " In the morning they are like the grass which groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered." To cure us of our confidence in the wealth • Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 598 lehte
...to destruction, .and sayest, return, ye :J96 ORIGINAL SIK. . PI children of men. — Thou carriest them away as with a flood : They are as a sleep :...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... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - 554 lehte
...another figure, in one of the most emphatic of the Scriptural representations as to the state of man. " In the morning, they are like grass which groweth...; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth."* — Sometimes life may appear to * Psalm xc. 5, 6. occupy extended dimensions,— yet the period will... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 lehte
...Church in the ninetieth Psalm, " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return ye children of men. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are...morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the evening it is cut down and withereth. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend our... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 604 lehte
...3, &c.) " Thou 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...are like grass, which groweth up: in the morning it flourished! and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine... | |
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