 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
 | Henry Bacon - Consolation - 1840 - 228 pages
...paternity — it is the wisdom of his infinite mind operating as love dictated. Therefore we read,- — " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest Return, ye children of men." Return, Body, to the dust. Return, Spirit, to thy God. Destruction comes upon the tabernacle, but reaches... | |
 | Thomas Manton - Bible - 1840 - 478 pages
...life is like a wheel. It is always in motion ; we are always turning and rolling to our graves : " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men" (Psa. xo. 3). The meaning is, they are turned into the world, and returned to the grave. It noteth... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 138 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 as a watch of the night. Thou carriest them away as with a... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1841 - 482 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, Return, ye children of men. As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep, and fade away suddenly as the grass. In the... | |
 | Church history - 1841 - 848 pages
...world, even 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 are but as yesterday whea it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...Here it is that we learn the import and beauty of that " wonderful specimen of elegiac eloquence :" " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye children of men!" What a perfect and inimitable illustration of the divine aphorism — " Our life is vapor !" faint,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...plenteous in mercy and truth. — Ps. Ixxxvi. 15; cxi. 4. Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God : thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men. — Ps. xc. 2, 3. The Lord will not cast otf his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. —... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 514 pages
...nothing before thee ; verily every man at his best state is alto- ' gether vanity." Again, he says to God, " 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... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 516 pages
...as nothing before thee ; verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity." 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 as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 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 nx a watch in the night.... | |
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