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“Make Me to Know Mine End”

“Make Me to Know Mine End”

The psalms following the thirty-third begin to take more and more thought of the position of the wicked, of their temporary prosperity, and of the certainty that it cannot endure. The verses grow full of warnings as to the inevitable result of evil courses. “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
‎“Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.”
‎This solemn facing of death casts its shadow over all these psalms. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
‎“Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breath; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
‎“Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.”
‎Thus with earnest warning against avarice, the psalmist points out that each of us is but “a sojourner” here, as have been all our predecessors.



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