| Sketches - 1799 - 204 sidor
...mentioning, in conversation, about six months before his death, the words of the psalmist — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow," he added with a smile, " But I have not found them either labour or sorrow." Much of this freshness... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 sidor
...told.*] The days of our years [are] three score years and ten ; and if Ly reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour...sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Some understand thie afinóse Israelites, who came out of Egypt, and died about this age in the wildernees... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sidor
...Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. 1's. xc. 0. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Keel. iii. 2. A time to be born and a time to die. Matt. vi. 97. Which of you can add one cubit to... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 sidor
...reduction afterwards, when Israel sinned and perished in the wilderness. Then it was said, 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 araay. Though a strong constitution and the proper government of the appetites and passions... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 sidor
...makes us meet for the mansions of the blessed ! Amen. The Brevity of Human Life. SERMON XXXV. PSAL. Xc. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and...yet is their strength labour and, sorrow ; for it is so$n cut off, and we fly away.. . JLT has been maintained by some that the exact period of human life... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 sidor
...to see a hundred and twenty years, hath set man's ordinary period at half his own term : The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; Ps. xc. 10. Lo, fourscore years alone are load enough for the strength, much more for the weakness,... | |
| William Romaine - 1809 - 212 sidor
...age. LT is appointed unto all men once to die. The time is fixed by an immutable decree. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is cut soon off, and we flee away. If some be permitted to live longer, yet the infirmities of old age... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 sidor
...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 sidor
...generally signifies, 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...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 sidor
...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... | |
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