 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.  Notes and Queries - Side 2591854Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Cobbett - 1801 - 594 sider
...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." * Rush despises a knowledge of the learned languages for much about the same... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1803 - 472 sider
.... skies. [7] I have seen the nicked 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. He is so completely annihilated, that the very place where he stood was destroyed.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 sider
...often observed, I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 3.6 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found ; / have seen families -which jlourulitd by iniquity gone at once, one scarce... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 sider
...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 ; / have seen families which flourished by iniquity gone at on.ce,... | |
 | James Fisher - 1806 - 352 sider
...place ; " 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," Psal. xxxvii. 35, 36. Nor will a reflection on their latter end yield the... | |
 | 1809 - 556 sider
...and sucked abundance of the earth, and spreads juit-e out of its branches every way.. Ver. 36. Ytt he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea', I sought him, but ke could not be found.] And yet, as firm as he seemed to stand, he was gone on a sudden ; he vanished,... | |
 | 1811 - 394 sider
...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 what a sensibility is produced by the loss of an individual who filled... | |
 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 sider
...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." He is so completely annihilated, that the very place, where he stood, was destroyed.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 sider
...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 the perfect man, and behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace.'... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1813 - 244 sider
...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 easiest them down into... | |
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