...Unless he's truly wise, Ai like a sensual beast he lives So like a beast he dies." Again : " Lover^and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness." — Psalm Ixxxviii. 18. BRADY AND TATE. " My lovers, friends, familiars, all Removed from sight, and...

...Nabal only that stood at this distance from him, his nearest and dearest acquaintance cast him off : Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. — Refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul, or (as the Hebrew hath it) no man sought after my soul....

...perhaps deserted and forgotten — The sigh from that bursting heart how deep! how unsuppressable! "lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness! I am oppressed O Lord! undertake forme!" Oh what variety of principles and affections, motives and feelings,...

...have cut 17 me off. They came round about me daily like water ; they 1 8 compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness ; some of them are dead, others through my own sin and Jolly home forsaken me,; but in all thit I would...

...they once read and have left folded down with their own hands ; we walk from room to room, and ugh, " Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness." We examine ourselves, anJ find that our strength is not the strength of stones, nor are our bones brass...

...heart, which, with unutterable anguish, though with pious submission, remonstrates to its Maker, ' Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.' POETRY. From Fatycett's Poems. TO A ROBIN', Wh«enesth»db«<n ukenout of the author1» earta, where...

...to their windows. SERMON XX. Parting with Friends, a painful Trial. PSALM Ixxxviii, 18. • ». • Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkntss, THE author of this psalm is called Heman the Ezrahite. He was not the celebrated musician...

...read and have left folded down with their own hands ; we walk from room to room, and sigh, " Lov" er and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine " acquaintance into darkness." We examine ourselves, and find that our strength is not the strength of stones, nor are our bones brass...

...indeed he was : — only five months, and her husband left her to sigh out the widow's complaint : " Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness." Now, one would have thought, Death should have had enough out of one family, and that she might have...

...have cut me off. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. PSALM LXXXIX. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 1 Will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with...