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...forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world ; even from everlasting to everlasting, thou God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest Return ye children of men." We learn from the Scriptures that Jesus Christ, "God's only begotten Son," existed in glory with the...

...arm ; and truly it was a humbling sight. I thought of that touching description in the 90th Psalm, " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." His eyes were sunk, and his voice was so weak, that the greatest exertion could not raise it above...

...paternity — it is the wisdom of his infinite mind operating as love dictated. Therefore we read,- — " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest Return, ye children of men." Return, Body, to the dust. Return, Spirit, to thy God. Destruction comes upon the tabernacle, but reaches...

...life is like a wheel. It is always in motion ; we are always turning and rolling to our graves : " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men" (Psa. xo. 3). The meaning is, they are turned into the world, and returned to the grave. It noteth...

...another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou...destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep, and fade away suddenly as the grass. In the...

...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou badst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and cayest. Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday whea it...

...Here it is that we learn the import and beauty of that " wonderful specimen of elegiac eloquence :" " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest return ye children of men!" What a perfect and inimitable illustration of the divine aphorism — " Our life is vapor !" faint,...

...Ps. Ixxxv. 9. in reverence of all about him. — Ps. Ixxxix. 7. Before the mountains were, &c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God : thou turnest man to destruction, and say est, Return, ye children of men. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,...

...as nothing before thee ; verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity." Again, he says to God, " Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men." " Thou carriest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass...