 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...  Selections for Oral Reading - Page 1edited by - 1914 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Harding (bp. of Bombay.) - 1841 - 308 pages
...fearful chastisement, sent on the Israelites in the form of a wide spread mortality among their families. "Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are...groweth up : in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." It was this sight of human frailty that led the... | |
 | 1841 - 848 pages
...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...whea 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... | |
 | 1841 - 138 pages
...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 flood...a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which springeth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and springeth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.... | |
 | General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1842 - 408 pages
...from everlasting to everlasting, thou art GOD. Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight...them away as with a flood ; They are as a sleep : In trie morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ;... | |
 | 1842 - 368 pages
...shall know it no more." " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Keturn ye children of men. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are...groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." And this, my brethren, is the period, the whole... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 516 pages
...Again, he says to God, " Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men." " Thou carriest them away as with a flood : they are...groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." God says to every man by Solomon, " Boast not thyself... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 518 pages
...to God, " Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men." " Thou carries! them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep ;...groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." God says to every man by Solomon, " Boast not thyself... | |
 | 1842 - 364 pages
...years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when it is past ; and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood — they are as a sleep...groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." " We spend our years as a tale that is told." "... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 514 pages
...altogether vanity." In another psalm he bewails the shortness of man's life before God. " Thou earnest him away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the...groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." And again he says, "As for man, his days are as... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...everlasting to ever 'asting', thou art God'. Thou turnest man to destruction'; and sayest', " Return', ye children of men'." For a thousand- years in thy...when it is past', and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest men away as with a flood'. They are as a sleep': in the morning', they are like grass which... | |
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