| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 402 páginas
...sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath :. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 524 páginas
...sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off,... | |
| Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 122 páginas
...adopt the words contained in the prayer of Moses, the man of God, in th« xc. Psalm— w We spend our years as a tale that is told-. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength la* bour and sorrow : for it is soon cut... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 páginas
...then, according to David's account, it is but a poor life at best that the law promises; " the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." And labour and sorrow are of so little value to a soul that desires to be with Christ, that it is hardly... | |
| George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 páginas
...to a meditation, a thought, which is of a nature still more fleeting and transient. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...strength labour and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we jly away. This again might be primarily spoken by Moses, concerning Israel. The generation of those... | |
| 1858 - 778 páginas
...nature and brevity of life, that " we spend our years as a tale that is told'' —that " the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off," — the brittle thread that detains us to earth is soon snapped asunder, " and we fly away." " Thou... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 páginas
...hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labour and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 14 O satisfy... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 páginas
...which the Psalmist is almost universally acknowledged to have provided a final answer; — 'The days of our years are three-score years and ten, and if by...strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we flee away.' There are plenty of examples, however, of longevity far exceeding even the higher figures,... | |
| 1815 - 614 páginas
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut oft', and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 202 páginas
...it1? Is it a large portion of time ? Are centuries allotted for man's existence ? No : " The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for , * Psa. xc. 9. f J°b xiv. 1. it is soon cut off, and we fly away."* Nay, it is compared to a week,... | |
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