Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest : — " Return, ye children of men." For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Prayer - Página 3por John Lathrop - 1804 - 41 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1839 - 1060 páginas
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 ngs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travailetli : > i pas. s. 4 "For a thousand years in thy i or, vim >u sight are but as yesterday II when it is feti... | |
| Henry Fitz - 1840 - 512 páginas
...or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world ; even from everlasting to everlasting, thou God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest Return ye children of men." We learn from the Scriptures that Jesus Christ, "God's only begotten Son," existed in glory with the... | |
| Henry Bacon - 1840 - 228 páginas
...paternity — it is the wisdom of his infinite mind operating as love dictated. Therefore we read,- — " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest Return, ye children of men." Return, Body, to the dust. Return, Spirit, to thy God. Destruction comes upon the tabernacle, but reaches... | |
| 1840 - 248 páginas
...arm ; and truly it was a humbling sight. I thought of that touching description in the 90th Psalm, " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." His eyes were sunk, and his voice was so weak, that the greatest exertion could not raise it above... | |
| Thomas Manton - 1840 - 478 páginas
...life is like a wheel. It is always in motion ; we are always turning and rolling to our graves : " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men" (Psa. xo. 3). The meaning is, they are turned into the world, and returned to the grave. It noteth... | |
| 1841 - 138 páginas
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return,...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch of the night. Thou carriest them away as with a... | |
| 1841 - 848 páginas
...world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and cayest. Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday whea it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a... | |
| 1841 - 908 páginas
...Here it is that we learn the import and beauty of that " wonderful specimen of elegiac eloquence :" " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye children of men!" What a perfect and inimitable illustration of the divine aphorism — " Our life is vapor !" faint,... | |
| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1841 - 444 páginas
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep, and fade away suddenly as the grass. In the... | |
| General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1842 - 408 páginas
...thou ex|alt like an unicorn's : I shall be an|ointed with fresh oil. SELECTION 265. [Ps. xc. 3.] 1. Thou turnest | man to destruction ; And sayest, Re|turn, ye children of men. 2. Return, O JE|HOVAH! how long? And let it re|pent thee concerning thy servants. 3. O satisfy us early... | |
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