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I. THE DIVINITY OF DEATH. "I know that Thou wilt bring me to death." Men ascribe death to one of three causes — disease, accident, or age; but the Bible ascribes it to God. "Thou wilt bring me to death."

1. Nothing else can bring me to death unless Thou wilt. My existence depends every moment on Thy will.

2. Nothing else can prevent me from dying if Thou wiliest that I should depart; all is with Thee. "Thou turnest man to destruction. Thou changest his countenance and sendest him away." There are no premature deaths.

II. The ORDINATION of death. "The house appointed." Death is no chance matter. "It is appointed unto all men once to die."

1. This appointment is very natural; all organic life dies: all sublunary life finds the "house" of mortality. To this "house" all plants, reptiles, insects, birds, fishes, beasts direct their steps.

2. This appointment is very settled. This appointment is kept as immutably as the ordinances of heaven or any of the laws of nature.

III. The UNIVERSALITY of death. "For all living." Men, when living, have houses of various shapes, sizes, value, according to their tastes and means, but in dying they have only one "house." All go to one place. What a "house" is this grave! ancient — desolate — spacious — crowded.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

WEB: For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.