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
| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1831 - 458 pages
...forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest,...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... | |
| Georg Christian Knapp - Theology, Doctrinal - 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.... | |
| George Horne - Bible - 1833 - 438 pages
...dissolution. See, for a parallel, Psalm 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,... | |
| Theology - 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... | |
| Sermons - 1833 - 652 pages
...forth ? — What judgment has ever so terrified the land with the similitude of the Psalmist,— " 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... | |
| Bible - 1834 - 274 pages
...forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest,...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and at a watch in the night. Thou carries! them away as with... | |
| Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 340 pages
...forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest,...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. Thou carriest them away as with... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...'Mountlnz —not, mo unl'nr. formed the earth and the world', even from everlasting to everasting', thou art God'. Thou turnest man to destruction'; and sayest',...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. Thou carriest men away as with... | |
| Thomas Searle - Prayer - 1834 - 284 pages
...grave ? Remember how short my time is. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain, Psalm Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away with a flood: they are as a sleep. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth... | |
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