 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - Страниц: 476
...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The sum and substance indeed of his request is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - Страниц: 636
...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 VoL. II.... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - Страниц: 588
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; camp, xc, 9, 10. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodlincss thereof is as the flower... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - Страниц: 902
...me. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure...how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; i>ere. and mine age is as nothing before thee: 'verily every man l^1 f at his best... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 938
...these ! and how far wiser the man, who, considering his latter end, offers the Psalmist's prayer, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." (Ps. xxxix. 4.) But again, the man, who would rightly number his days, will be chiefly anxious to do... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - Страниц: 980
...their endeavours and prayers for the attainment of it. David prays thus: ' Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days what it is: that I may know how frail I am.'k It is not to be understood as if he desired to know, in a literal sense, what year or day his... | |
 | George Bull - 1827 - Страниц: 518
...effect of his grace, which therefore ought to be sought for by humble and earnest prayer. PSALM xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. P. 472. ERRATA. P. 34. note, line 4, read In Exod. Horn. VI. §. 6. 67. note X. 1. xftirrati 76. note,... | |
 | George Bull - 1827 - Страниц: 514
...effect of his grace, which therefore ought to be sought for by humble and earnest prayer. PSALM xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know hotv frail I am. P. 472. ERRATA. P. 34. note, line 4, read In Exod. Horn. VI. 6. 6. 67. note x. 1.... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1827 - Страниц: 410
...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 am. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the vanity... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 590
...realizing view of the shortness and uncertainty of life. "Lord, make me to know mine end," says he, " and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Brethren, may we feel the just force of the wishes here expressed ! May we so learn to " number our... | |
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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. 
