 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | John Langhorne - Sermons, English - 1815 - 304 pages
...in love and gratitude, knows no other anxiety, than what accompanies the agreeable desire to please. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the green bay ; but he passed away, and, lo ! he was not : I sought him, but /ue could not be found.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...laileth me : as for the light of mine eyes, it when the wicked arc cut off, thou •see it. shalt 35 s the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD KÏIS not in the wind: and afte bay-tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and lo, he «им not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 550 pages
...For yet a little while, and he that " shall come, will come, and will not tarry." Heb. x. 35. 35. 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree, or, a native tree, which has grown from the seed without transplantation, in the same spot.... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...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 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." "These shall... | |
 | Apocryphal books (New Testament) - 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 - Great Britain - 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 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." ESSAY VII.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 
