...bear the contemplation of the glorious Creator and maker of heaven and earth. The fifth verse is : " Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are...the morning they are like grass, which groweth up." And the sixth verse adds : " In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut...

...years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest I LOVE the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and...my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his 6 In the morning it flourishelh, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withered). 7 For...

...his soul from the hand of the grave ? Selah.— Ps. Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest men to destruction, &c. they are like grass which groweth up : in the morning...flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cutdown and withered, &c. Thedays of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by reason of strength...

...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...morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morniug it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed...

...flourishing state of man in youth, and his decay in the time of age; " In the morning they are like the grass which groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered." To cure us of our confidence in the wealth • Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw...

...Thou turnest man to destruction, .and sayest, return, ye :J96 ORIGINAL SIK. . PI children of men. — Thou carriest them away as with a flood : They are...groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities...

...&c.) •:Thou ttirnest man to destruction, nnd savcst, return, ye children of men. — Thou carries! them away as with a flood They are as a sleep : In...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For \ve are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities...

...another figure, in one of the most emphatic of the Scriptural representations as to the state of man. " In the morning, they are like grass which groweth...; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth."* — Sometimes life may appear to * Psalm xc. 5, 6. occupy extended dimensions,— yet the period will...

...3, &c.) " 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: In...are like grass, which groweth up: in the morning it flourished! and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine...

...ninetieth Psalm, " 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 ;...morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the evening it is cut down and withereth. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend our...