 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...  Select specimens of English poetry - الصفحة 339المحررون: - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 416عرض كامل - حول هذا الكتاب
 | Hugh Gaston - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...Thou earnest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass that groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth. Eccl. i. 4. One generation cometh, and another gocth. ii. 16. How dieth the wise man? as the fool.... | |
 | Time - 1835
...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...when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | Edwin Sidney - 1835
...a flood," they are taken off with violence. " They are as a sleep, they fall insensibly into death. They are like grass which groweth up. In the morning...up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." How uncertain the life of man, in comparison with the unchangeableness of God ! He beholds worlds rising... | |
 | William COGSWELL (D.D.) - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...bounds that he cannot pass. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye 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 in thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale, that is told. In thy righteous providence,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836
...from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, Thou turnest man to destruction 1 and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight...carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : 78 PRAISE TO GOD. in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1836
...and sayest, Return, ye children of men: thou earnest them away as with a flood: they are as asleep: of Ecclesiastes of the temporal state of it, is to...untying it. Of many solutions, which we have no time and withered." 3. Let us reckon the days of languor and weariness, and compare them with the days of... | |
 | Richard Waldo Sibthorp - 1836
...a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 6. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are...the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 7. In the morning itflourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. xc. 4,... | |
 | 1836
...to a person who looks back on it, may appear only as three hours, or one quarter of the night. 5. " Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are...in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; " or as grass that changeth. 6. " In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1836
...looks back upon it, may appear only as three hours, or one quarter of the night. B 5. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; or, as grass that changeth. 6. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is... | |
 | 1837
...f/om everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest шап to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men : for a thousand years in thy sight...and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away at with aßood." Called, as we lately have been, in the providence of God, to witness the most awful... | |
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