 | John Phillips - Religion - 2001 - 379 pages
...speak of his imprisonment without fear. Twelve years is a long time to us, but it is nothing to God. "A thousand ages in Thy sight are like an evening...as the watch that ends the night, before the rising sun." He had not forgotten Joseph; He was working to a timetable, that was all. What an exhibit we... | |
 | Religion - 2001 - 206 pages
...order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone....as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Does... | |
 | Sylvia Roache - Religion - 2001 - 312 pages
...ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies with the opening day, A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone,...as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun, —Isaac Watts Prayer: God my Father, you inhabit time and eternity. All time is in your hands.... | |
 | Anthony R Brach - Religion - 2002 - 196 pages
...would not be so welcome. —Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672). Meditations Divine and Moral [1664], 3. A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. —Isaac Watts. O God, Our Help in Ages Past (The Psalms of David) [1719]. Therefore all seasons... | |
 | William Gadsby - Hymns, English - 2002 - 452 pages
...stood, Or earth received her frame — From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 6 O God, our help in ages past Our hope for years to come,... | |
 | Vyvyan Evans - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 286 pages
...order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at... | |
 | Richard J. Mouw - Music - 2004 - 288 pages
...order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 Thy word commands our flesh to dust, Return, ye...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 6 The busy tribes of flesh and blood With all their lives and cares Are carried downwards by the... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 544 pages
...order stood Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. Thy word commands our flesh to dust, "Return ye sons...rose from earth at first And turn to earth again. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before... | |
 | Jan Wells - Religion - 2004 - 164 pages
...order stood, or earth received her frame, from everlasting Thou art God, to endless years the same. A thousand ages, in Thy sight, are like an evening...as the watch that ends the night, before the rising sun. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be Thou our guide while life shall last,... | |
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