 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...its dismal effects in words attributed to Moses, and adopted by the 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 as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | 1830 - 108 pages
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : And sayest, " Return, ye children of men." 4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.... | |
 | 1830 - 106 pages
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : And sayest, " Return, ye children of men." 4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...existence. Here then we feelingly assent to the truth of the observations, made by the holy Moralist ; " Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are...are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." b This comparison of the... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1831 - 458 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,...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them, they... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 510 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,...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." This designation is taken towards... | |
 | Georg Christian Knapp - 1831 - 566 pages
...the disposal of God; Job 14: 5, " Thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot pass." Ps. 90: 3, " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men." Ps. 31: 15. 39: 4, 5.—These texts, however, and others of a similar nature, have been often erroneously... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...all this Job sinned not, nor " charged God foolishly" (or " attributed folly to God"). Job i. 21,22. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men. Ps. xc. 3. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man. Ps. civ. 14.... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...counsel 26 Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations mayknowthemselves to be but men. 27 Thou earliest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up : 28 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. SECTION... | |
 | 1834 - 410 pages
...singular did it appear, and in what accordance with this scene, that the very next verse should be, " Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest, Return ye children of men." Standing at the Notch House, and looking upon the burial-place of the lost family, the connection of... | |
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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... 
