 | Gardiner Spring - 1819 - 194 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1820 - 302 pages
...left upon it : 7 but the transgressors shall perish from off the face of it. 11 And again he saith, 8 I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like the cedar of Libanus. 1 passed by, and lo ! he was not ; I sought hia place, but it could not be found.... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1821 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...the prosperity of wicked men, it can last but a little while: therefore, says the 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lordj 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, Hut he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the wicked are cut off, thou 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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. I have seen the wicked in great power 5 and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away ; I sought him, but he could notbe found, Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1822 - 486 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
