 | George Rogers - 1839 - 396 pagine
...of many wicked. 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." (Ps. xxxvii. 1, 2, 14 — 16, 35, 36.) " Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.... | |
 | Jared Bell Waterbury - 1839 - 168 pagine
...fares it then ? "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," Psa. xxxvii. 35, 36. How permanent is a Christian's joy ! Its roots are strongly imbedded like the... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1840 - 136 pagine
...lips to be followers of the Redeemer, yet deny him by their lives. In the 37th Psalm it is written, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Whether the bay tree thus alluded to in Scripture be of the same description as that which grows in... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pagine
...shall see //. 35 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 hs, we brought again 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man ¡s peace. 38 But the transgressors... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - 1884 - 196 pagine
...trembling for its own safety, but is anxiously looking back upon the action of the Bull, as if saying, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...himself like a green bay tree ; yet he passed away, nnd, lo, he is not : yea, I look for him, but he cannot be found" (Ps. 37 : 34-36). The whole picture... | |
 | Pope John Paul I - 2001 - 292 pagine
...'You see, Eminence? You see?' 'Don't worry,' the cardinal replied. 'His fate is set down in Psalm 37: "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...passed away and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, and he could not be found." Sometimes that 'woe' doesn't mean divine punishment but human ridicule.... | |
 | Campbell Gillon - 1991 - 236 pagine
...I quoted the Psalmist about the wicked flourishing like a green bay tree. The next verse continues, "Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." One year, all joy; the next, all gone. Poor, sad Lord Byron wasn't very old when he wrote: There's... | |
 | John Murray - 1957 - 274 pagine
...of sin and whose life is constituted by sin may say with reference to the person translated from it, 'he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found'. The place that knew him knows him no more. There is a kingdom of sin, of darkness, and of death. The... | |
 | Allan A. Swenson - 1995 - 252 pagine
..."The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon." Psalms 29:5 "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." Psalms 37:35 In the earliest days of the Bible, the Promised Land was a land alive with foliage and... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pagine
...5:3: 'I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly 1 cursed his habitation'; and Psalm 37:35-6: 'I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading...bay tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not' ('suddenly dissolve and fall away'?, 38). The repetition of 'I have seen' (35, 37) resembles Symons,... | |
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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. 
