| William Cobbett - 1801 - 450 páginas
...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 - 1805 - 504 páginas
...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 - 1806 - 352 páginas
...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...bay tree ; " yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; " yea, I sought him, but he could not be " found," Psal. xxxvii. 35, 36. Nor will a reflection on... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 páginas
...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.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 páginas
...house of the Lord, thaft \f> dwell in the tents of wickedness. I have seen the wicked in great powerV 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 wisdom Length of days Is.... | |
| Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 páginas
...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."... | |
| 1811 - 394 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 páginas
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
| Gardiner Spring - 1813 - 244 páginas
...these are the ungodly, who are brought into desolation as in a moment ! — 1 have seen the wicktd 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. Surely, thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou... | |
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