 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 pages
...art, О God I Thon 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 the morning they are like grass which springeth up. . In the morning it flouiisheth and groweth up : in the evening it is cut down and withered.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, Thou turnest man to destruction 1 and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand...carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : 78 PRAISE TO GOD. in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth,... | |
 | Richard Waldo Sibthorp - 1836 - 210 pages
...a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 6. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are...the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 7. In the morning itflourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. xc. 4,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 438 pages
...its dissolution. See, for a parallel, Ps. cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1836 - 380 pages
...days, and the number of his months are with thee. Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep, in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | Alan Nadel - 1995 - 356 pages
...as a watch in the night. Thou earnest the children of men away as with a flood; they are as asleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it florisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by Thy... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 pages
...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,...when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...the passage conveys neither Bacon's explicit promise of knowledge nor his mocking of vain dreamers: Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return ye children of men. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep . . . Elsewhere Bacon reminds his readers... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest men to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. —and the later, sadly... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest men to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of...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... | |
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For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday 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 groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and... 
