| Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer - 1999 - 392 pagina’s
...consider my calling. . . . For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. "Oh, spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no more seen." Old Hezekiah Haskins held the book before him, but he did not read. A thousand times in his fifty years... | |
| Michael McHugh - 1999 - 244 pagina’s
...like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. 1 2 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojoumer, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and... | |
| Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 pagina’s
...consume away like smoke; surely every man is vanity. Hear my prayer, Oh Lord, give ear unto my cry, hold not Thy peace at my tears, for I am a stranger with Thee, and a sojourner with Thee, as all my fathers were."4 But, Oh Lord, stay Thy hand of affliction, and pardon my sins,... | |
| P.D. James - 2001 - 368 pagina’s
...which looked unused. The pages opened stiffly and the bold black and red lettering shone from the page. For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as...strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen. He held the book by its spine and shook it. No paper fluttered from its rigid leaves. But where it... | |
| Wilhelm Raabe - 2001 - 214 pagina’s
...sighed Magister Buchius in the words of the Psalmist. "Hear my prayer, Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.156 1 am driven forth, and it is useless for me to return home and seek my little chamber. Surely... | |
| Thomas St Nicholas - 2002 - 552 pagina’s
...1665', especially line 72n. 42-43 Now ... order] Cf. 'Of Sickness', line 4. 65-70 spare ... appear] 'O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen' (Ps. 39.15, Psalter). 73-74 after ... falling] 'And the raine descended, and the floods came, and the... | |
| Robin Holloway - 2003 - 468 pagina’s
...prayer O Lord; with thine ears hear my lamentation; hold not thy peace. For I came as a stranger before thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. O spare...my strength before I go hence and be no more seen. To this cry of distress the second movement (words from Psalm 39) is an explicit answer — patience... | |
| Graeme Gibson - 2003 - 276 pagina’s
...I am a stranger . . ." Indeed and, we're strangers with these partings long foreseen: and failure. "O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen." For once and finally in the dark I saw, so many volumes in her empty flat behind Victoria Station,... | |
| Mark Hanby - 2005 - 353 pagina’s
...is a constant movement and leading of His Spirit. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not Thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger...with Thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were (Psalm 39:12). As with natural Israel, we are a holy nation of sojourners traveling from a temporary... | |
| Richard Alan Ruof - 2005 - 164 pagina’s
...God. For from the outstretched hand In joy had he eaten. His solace in sufferingGod's unseen angels. "hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger...with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were" Psalm 39 : 12 EVEN THE WORST Poor McHany Married his girl Who was as pure And dedicated As a multiple... | |
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