...him, so that one hour he raged with heat and thirst, and the next his teeth chattered with cold. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily...

...insensibly break forth into prayer. " While I was musing, the fire burned ; then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." And if you would have the fire of devotion, which now perhaps is covered with ashes and nearly extinct,...

...teaches us by his Spirit. This we must pray for most fervently. Thus David, (Psal. xxxix. 4,) " LOuD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He does not ask to know how long he should live, and when he should die. He could not in faith pray...

...shepherd to be a king. Shall 1 hegin ? 39th Psalm 4th verse : " Lori/, make me to kftozv mine end, awl the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am." M. Do not you think it strange that David should wish to know " the measure of his days," that is,...

...in all your moanings, go to Him, pour out your tears to Him. Not only fire, but even water, where it wants a vent, will break upward. These tears drop...from God about the day of his death, but instruction VoL. II. 2 O concerning the frailty and shortness of his life. But did not David know this ? Yes, he...

...in all your meanings, go to Him, pour out your tears to Him. Not only fire, but even water, where it wants a vent, will break upward. These tears drop...from God about the day of his death, but instruction VOL. II. 20 concerning the frailty and shortness of his life. But did not David know this? Yes, he...

...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 e thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (K) CHAP. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; andinine age is as nothing before thee ; verily...

...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The sum and substance indeed of his request is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty...

...3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days us an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily...

...determined ; the number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what is it ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, and mine...