 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...text: 'I have seen the wicked,' says he, ' 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 shone as a meteor : he blazed like a comet in his day : but still he passed away! he was gone like... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...propriety : " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself, li ke a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found."0 The reapers go to the field very early in the morning, and return home betimes in the afternoon.... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself 'J^e || a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I...be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. • *°*wfc 39 But the salvation of the righteous/.* of... | |
 | 1827 - 396 pages
...thereof.'" ПEFLECTIONS. " I have seen thewicked in great powei, 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." I know of no subject that has more perplexed the reasonings of tlie sage, and confounded the penetration... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 pages
...house appointed for all living." Some, however, are removed so suddenly as to oblige us to exclaim, " He passed away, and lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found !" And of their bereaved families we say, " How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment, as... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...extinction. " 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." Some writers suppose the laurel ix meant, which is of much more vigorous and rapid growth than the... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1828 - 820 pages
...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." This leaded) me to... | |
 | 1828 - 318 pages
...extinguish ? I have seen a young man ' 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.' Dost thou postpone the remembrance of thy Creator unto the evil days of old age ? Hear thou the language... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 pages
...spreading himself like a green bay-tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and lo, he mas not : yea, 1 sought him, out he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and...upright : for the end of that man is peace. 38 But tac transgressors shall be destroyed together : the end of the wicked shad be cut off. 39 But the salvation... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - 1829 - 654 pages
...he, "the ungodly in great prosperity, and flourishing like a green bay-tree." But then it follows, " yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; yea I sought him, but he could not be found." His life, though splendid and promising for a time, was short and transient. He seemed to himself to... | |
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Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 
