...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 which groweth up...In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in tbe evening it is cut down and withereth." 3. Let us reckon the days of languor and weariness, and...

...cares and troubles ! How uncertain, changing, and perishing are all things human ! " Man is as the grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." Our time is short, and yet the work before us is great and important. Swiftly and silently the time...

...away as with a flood, they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. .6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth. up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 B'or we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities...

...carrieth them away as with a flood ; that they are as a sleep : in the morning they are as grass that groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening is cut down and withereth." But such a view, necessary and salutary though it be, is not the only one...

...flower of the grass. When he dieth he shall carry nothing away ; his glory shall not descend after him. In the morning they are like grass which groweth up....flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. His breath goeth...

...stroke, proclaim aloud, that all flesh is but as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass : in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up — in the evening it is cut down and withereth. But, were this the only lesson which Mr. Durant's pages are adapted to impart, they would fall far...

...away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass K-liicli groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities...

...he flourisheth ; the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. In the morning, it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening, it is cut down and withereth."* Have you not, reader, known this in your own circle? You have been favoured with earthly comforts ;...

...opinion ; or of those ephemeral productions, of each of which, as of of their authors it might be said, " in the " morning it flourisheth and groweth up, " in the evening it is cut down and wither" ethd." Surely here is something to arrest attention ; something to awaken reflection ;...

...man, are often literally and precisely verified : " he is like the grass, in the morning it flourishes and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." 3dly. Death is a prevalent insuperable evil : hence the proverbial expression, " strong as death that...