 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 594 pages
...progress and the lamentable catastrophe of Brown, without thinking on the words of Holy Writ ! — " I have " seen the .wicked in great power, and spreading...'.' yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." * Rush despises a knowledge of the learned languages for much about the same reason that an ugly old... | |
 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 354 pages
...great prosperity, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. But then it follows, yet he passed atvay, 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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...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 knows how, as Saul, Mithofihel^... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1805 - 380 pages
...and which are many of them to be found in the writings of the psalmist ! 1 have seen the wicked in power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he teas not : I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie, to be laid... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...shal: see his firovidençe appearing for their destruction. 35 This, says David, I have 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... | |
 | James Fisher - Meditations - 1806 - 352 pages
...Psalmist, which I noticed a little before, when I saw this tree growing in full verdure in this 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,"... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...he is comforted, and tlwu art tormented; Luke xvi. 25. The wicked man prospers : but, how long ? / have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...bay-tree : Yet, he passed away ; and, lo, he was not : I sought him ; but he could nut be found ; Ps. xxsvii. 35, 36. The wicked prosper: — Alas, their... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...the fleshly table of the heart, "I have 'seen the wicked in ; great power, and spreading hims«l£ like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, I suuglit him, but he could not be found." But what a sensibility is prod need by the loss of an individual... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Wake - Apostolic Fathers - 1810 - 418 pages
...left upon it ; but the transgressors shall perish from off the face of it."J And again he saith, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the cedars of Libanus. I passed by, and lo he was not ; I sought his place, but it could not be found.... | |
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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. 
