 | Gardiner Spring - 1819 - 194 pagine
...these are the ungodly, \vho, arc brought into desolation, as in a moment! I have seen the wicked Ln great power, and spreading himself like a green bay...not; yea, I sought him but he could not be found. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou easiest them down into destruction." ESSAY XIV.... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1821 - 542 pagine
...for the importance of the sentiment they contain, and the beautiful simplicity of their expression. " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." ESSAY VII. The Reign O/CHAKLES I. continued, from the Death of Buckingham to the commencement of the... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pagine
...shalt see it. 35 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green baytree. 36 Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the transgressors... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pagine
...inspired Psalmist, I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green b:iy-tree; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. And, as for the afflictions of the godly, the apostle declares that his light affliction, which endureth... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1822 - 486 pagine
...Knyghton. Hemingt. Froissart. R. de Avesb. REFLECTIONS. " I have seen," says the royal Psalmist, " the wicked " in great power, and spreading himself...not; yea " I sought him, but he could not be found." Thus sudden was the fall of the guilty Mortimer from the pinnacle of his glory; thus abruptly did his... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pagine
...sacred volume we read, " A little that a righteous man hath, is better than the riches of many wicked. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...himself like a green bay tree; yet he passed away, nnd lo he was not ; yen, I sought him, but he could not be found." Solomon also very amply confirms... | |
 | John Arrowsmith - 1822 - 410 pagine
...hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.''f David expresseth it most emphatically, " I have seen the wicked in great power ; and spreading himself like a green bay tree," (a tree that retaineth its viridity and freshness even in winter when fruit bearing trees have cast... | |
 | Sarah Brealey - 1823 - 408 pagine
...36. 20, 27. 1 Chro. 1. 38, 42. (}) Dent. 2. 12. upon their high places. (A) I have seen, says David, the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like...not ; yea I sought him, but he could not be found. (I) What a necessity for all to be humble; for, like the children of Jaakan, we are all sprung from... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 410 pagine
...-tree,' or a native tree, which has grown from the seed without transplantation, in the same spot. 36. ' Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.' The great Babylonian monarch had his own exalta* tion, and subsequent degradation, portrayed to him,... | |
 | 1823 - 880 pagine
...green herb. 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green baytree ; yet be passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea I sought him, but he could not be found." Man that is born of a woman, is of few days ; and when these days are ended, awful beyond expression... | |
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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. 
