Psalms 39:1
I said — I fully resolved. Take heed — To order all my actions right, and particularly to govern my tongue.... [ Continue Reading ]
I said — I fully resolved. Take heed — To order all my actions right, and particularly to govern my tongue.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dumb — Two words put together, expressing the same thing, to aggravate or increase it. I held — I forbear to speak, what I justly might, lest I should break forth into some indecent expressions. Stirred — My silence did not assuage my grief, but increase it.... [ Continue Reading ]
My end — Make me sensible of the shortness and uncertainly of life, and the near approach of death.... [ Continue Reading ]
Before thee — If compared with thee, and with thy everlasting duration.... [ Continue Reading ]
Vain shew — Heb. in a shadow or image; in an imaginary rather than a real life: in the pursuit of vain imaginations, in which there is nothing solid or satisfactory: man in and his life, and all his happiness in this world, are rather appearances and dreams, than truths and realities. Disquieted — H... [ Continue Reading ]
Mow Lord — Seeing this life and all its enjoyments are so vain and short. My hope — I will seek for happiness no where but in God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Remove — Take off the judgment which thou hast inflicted upon me. I am — Help me before I am utterly lost.... [ Continue Reading ]
Beauty — His comeliness and all his excellencies or felicities. Moth — As a moth consumeth a garment, to which God compares himself and his judgments, secretly and insensibly consuming a people, Isaiah 51:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
A stranger — I am only in my journey or passage to my real home, which is in the other world.... [ Continue Reading ]
No more — Among the living, or in this world.... [ Continue Reading ]