 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...lift up our hands and hearts, without ceasing unto God, and say unto him with the royal Psalmist, " Lord, make " me to know mine end, and the measure...days, " what it is ; that I may know how frail I am," Psal. xxxix. 4 ; and with the prophet Moses, " So teach us to " number our days, that we may apply... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...insensibly break forth into prayer. " While I was musing, the fire burned ; then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." And if you would have the fire of devotion, which now perhaps is covered with ashes and nearly extinct,... | |
 | 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...knocked it off with his stick. " Never shall I again," said he, " remove an icicle from this tree. ' Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am,' " Psa. xxxix. 4. Alan Drew walked in his .garden in the spring, when the leaves of the pear-tree were... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...!•!>•• v,. i .••...« TAHW . TIME AND ETEHNITY., 522. The Shortness of Time and Frailly of Man. LM LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I' am, &c — PSALM xxxix. 4, &c. ALMIGHTY maker of my frame, Teach me the measure of my days ! Teach me to... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...Sunday School Teachers. — Designed to be inserted on the first pages of the Teacher's Class Book. " LORD MAKE ME TO KNOW MINE END, AND THE MEASURE OF...MY DAYS WHAT IT IS THAT I MAY KNOW HOW FRAIL I AM." " Dost thou inquire, O my soul, of the measure of thine uncertain days ? Dost thou ask, Is there not... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...teaches us by his Spirit. This we must pray for most fervently. Thus David, (Psal. xxxix. 4,) " LOuD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He does not ask to know how long he should live, and when he should die. He could not in faith pray... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...shepherd to be a king. Shall 1 hegin ? 39th Psalm 4th verse : " Lori/, make me to kftozv mine end, awl the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am." M. Do not you think it strange that David should wish to know " the measure of his days," that is,... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 1068
...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 e thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (K) CHAP. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; andinine age is as nothing before thee ; verily... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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.... | |
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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. 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. 
