 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - Страниц: 324
...impious man 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...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. M, Racine has... | |
 | 1811 - Страниц: 394
...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...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 LIO public office, who possessed... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - Страниц: 512
...for his own establishment, both from the harms and happiness of cithers, Psal. xxxvii. 35.— 37. ' I have seen the wicked in great power ; and spreading...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.' It is observable,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - Страниц: 378
...It 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 him, but he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in... | |
 | 1813 - Страниц: 744
...frontiers, and what is become of him? Let us here cite the words of the Holy Psalmist— " I have seeu the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree. " Yet be passed away, and, lo, lie was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." PSALM x\\vii.... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1813 - Страниц: 244
...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 destruction. ESSAY XIV.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - Страниц: 470
...and which are many of them to be found in the writings of the psalmist! "I have seen the wicked in power, and spreading himself like a green baytree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie ; to be laid in the balance... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - Страниц: 640
...be broken." Yea, "the wicked shall perish; they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. He passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." How expressively does this declare the truth, that evil, combined with deceit, consumes every vital... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1814 - Страниц: 298
...have seen the ^ckcd in great fioirer, and spreading himself like a green bay tree ; yet he fiassed away, and lo he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found, 35,36. And this is enough also to support the spirits of good men : for this cause we faint not, but... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - Страниц: 598
...eventually be destroyed, and this however strong the principle may be within us. Thus the psalmist says — "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree growing in his own soil ; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could... | |
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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. 
