 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1836 - 416 pages
...must she die, while yet in the flower and prime of life 1 ' But the days of man are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone.' Psalm ciii. 15, 16. So saith the royal David." While these thoughts passed in my mind,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...children, So Jehovah pitieth those that fear him : For he knoweth our frame, He remembereth we are but dust. As for man, his days are as grass ; As a flower...he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, And the place thereof knoweth it no more. The mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...scythe, and exclaim " Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone !" Hay-making is both a pleasant and healthful occupation ; — it is the very life of an... | |
 | Johannes Zollikofer - Prayer books - 1837 - 722 pages
...yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. But as for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, end the place thereof knoweth it no more. We appear before Thee, to close in thy presence,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...himself to " a leaf driven to and fro." " As for man," says the Psalmist, " his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more ;" Psalm ciii. 15, 16. Such are a few of the... | |
 | Isaac Clinton - Baptism - 1838 - 210 pages
...Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob ? Exod. 2, 4, 6, is similar. So is Psalm 105, 8, 42, and Psalm 103, 17 : " But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righeousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant." Here, again, on condition of... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - Sermons - 1838 - 472 pages
...are his bones of iron—has he an arm like God, or can he thunder with a voice like him ? No—as a flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over him and he is gone." A crumb, a gnat, a hair, a thorn, a speck, or a slip, may make an end of him.... | |
 | John Cox - God - 1839 - 170 pages
...grass, as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth: the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more; but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on them that fear him." Mercy is not like an arch overshadowing time, but... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...or poetry:— EXAMPLE. Human life is short and uncertain. " As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." " Where is to-morrow ? In another world.... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Families - 1839 - 672 pages
...comes; and in a moment sweeps away thee and thy plans forever! "As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth: for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." Can riches bribe Death, or make a bargain... | |
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As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more... 
