| William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 594 pages
...progress and the lamentable catastrophe of Brown, without thinking on the words of Holy Writ ! — " 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."... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...shal: see his firovidençe appearing for their destruction. 35 This, says David, I have oflen observed, I have seen the wicked: in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought hinîî but he could not be found ; /... | |
| James Fisher - Meditations - 1806 - 352 pages
...Psalmist, which I noticed a little before, when I saw this tree growing in full verdure in this place ; " 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," Psal.... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...he is comforted, and tlwu art tormented; Luke xvi. 25. The wicked man prospers : but, how long ? / have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree : Yet, he passed away ; and, lo, he was not : I sought him ; but he could nut be found ; Ps.... | |
| William Wake - Apostolic Fathers - 1810 - 418 pages
...left upon it ; but the transgressors shall perish from off the face of it."J And again he saith, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the cedars of Libanus. I passed by, and lo he was not ; I sought his place, but it could not be found.... | |
| Clergy - 1811 - 394 pages
...Something of him will remain on the marble; but nothing written on the fleshly table of the heart. " 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." But... | |
| Walter Hutchinson Aston - Bible - 1811 - 324 pages
...impious man to vanish, who a moment before seemed, like the cedar, to raise his proud head to the skies. "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."... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. I have seen the wicked in great power; and spreading himself like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away: I sought him, but he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth... | |
| Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...for his own establishment, both from the harms and happiness of cithers, Psal. xxxvii. 35.— 37. ' 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. Mark... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...eventually be destroyed, and this however strong the principle may be within us. Thus the psalmist says — "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree growing in his own soil ; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could... | |
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