 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...  Select specimens of English poetry - Page 337de Edward Hughes - 1856Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Jones - 1801 - 478 pages
...flourishing state of man in youth, and his decay in the time of age : " In the morning they are like the grass which grOweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withered." To cure us of our confidence in the wealth and prosperity of this world, and make way... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...; they are [as] a sleep ; they vanish like a dream when a man awakes ; in the morning [they are] 6 like grass [which] groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth...up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled ; the source of this destruction... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1807 - 384 pages
...preceding context : Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return ye children of men : than earnest them away, as with a flood : they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweih up. In tlie morning it jlourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...his soul from the hand of the grave ? xc. 3. Thou turnest men to destruction. Ver. 5. Thou earnest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleep in the morning, they are like grass that groweth up. Ver. 6. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 524 pages
...so. Psal. xc. 3, 8cc. " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men... .Thou carriest them away as with a flood : They are...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 402 pages
...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 groweth up ; in...up ; in the evening it is cut. down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we. troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 542 pages
...Psal. xc. 3, Sec. " 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 gvoweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...it is spent and gone ; nay, as three or four hours, which pass away in sleep. Ver. 5. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass wbiih groweth vp.~] But alas ! in these ages thou earnest men away suddenly, as a violent torrent doth... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 502 pages
...flourishing state of man in youth, and his decay in the time of age : " In the morning they are like the grass which groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered." To cure us of our confidence in the wealth and prosperity of this world, and make way... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...man, to a person who looks back upon it, may appear only as one quarter of the night. 5. Thou carries! them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep : in...the morning they are like grass which groweth up; or, as grass that changeth. 6. In the morning it Jlourisheth and grotoeth up ; in the evening it is... | |
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