 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...  The Universalist Church Companion - Page 75by Merrimac River Ministerial Circle - 1855 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 432 pages
...which Moses employs to trace the image of the life of the Israelites, in the preceding context : " 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... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 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 ,light.... | |
 | 1819 - 492 pages
...commandments — it is of little moment how we interpret particular passages. In the verse, therefore, " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men," thqy may think that it is of little importance whether the latter part of the verse refers to man's... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 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 art but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, return ye children of men. Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly ; how much less in them... | |
 | William Stern Palmer - 1817 - 178 pages
...and when its last rays have ceased to gild our horizon, our spirits may be at the bar of God. 23 £ turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return? ye...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and -jas a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 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,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Sermons, American - 1819 - 616 pages
...impenitent survivors. With these things premised, I observe, I. That Death is accomplished by the hand of God. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men. Thus it was threatened to our first Parents, and to their Posterity. It was threatened, and executed,... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...ever thou hadst formed the earttt and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 rd if, 4 For a thousand years in thy sight art but as yesterday when it is past, and a* a watch in the night.... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 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.... | |
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