 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pagine
...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 not be found." And he thus describes the blessed and happy effects — "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright;... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pagine
...be broken." Yea, "the wicked shall perish; they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. He passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." How expressively does this declare the truth, that evil, combined with deceit, consumes every vital... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1814 - 298 pagine
...have seen the ^ckcd in great fioirer, and spreading himself like a green bay tree ; yet he fiassed away, and lo he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found, 35,36. And this is enough also to support the spirits of good men : for this cause we faint not, but... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagine
...way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the wicked are cut off, thou shall see it. 3d 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 him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pagine
...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. Jiim, but he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pagine
...the nicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and to, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace. The transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pagine
...in great "Joks-3power, and spreading himself like || a ]£}£*f "" green bay tree. jTL,"/. ,„ 36 a, "let there be 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for Jthe end of that man « I'JJ''^1' '"' peace. 38... | |
 | 1817 - 482 pagine
...its leaves. He could not have known that the Scriptures compare none but the wicked to this tree. ' I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree;' (Psalm xxxvii. 35.) for the destruction of all around him. It would better have suited the nature of... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 550 pagine
...bay-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 exaltation, and subsequent degradation, portrayed to him,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 638 pagine
...none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." (Hag. i. 6.) "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." "These shall go away into everlasting punishment." (Matt. xxv. 46.) "Their worm dieth not, and the... | |
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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. 
