 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...hyprocrite for a moment,' xx. 4, 6. In his royal station, David remarked the same : ' I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away. Lo ! he was not. I sought him, but he could not be found.' Psalm xxxvii. 35, 36. Every where else the... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1835 - 162 pages
...the Psalmist, " I have seen the \vicked 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." There are those who die " Forlorn of heart, withered ami desolate, " As leaf of autumn, which the wolfish... | |
 | Menno Simons - Mennonites - 1835 - 506 pages
...what David says : I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the greenbay-tree; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Ps. 37.) Ah ! what a hard saying which the Lord uttered : Wo unto you that are rich, for ye have received... | |
 | Edward Crook - 1836 - 282 pages
...Lord shall laugh at him, for he seeth that his day is coming. I have seen the wicked, saith David, in great power, and spreading himself like a green...not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psalm xxxvii.) It may be that the rich man did not think that his time was so short, when he set his... | |
 | Wilson C. Rider - Future punishment - 1836 - 348 pages
...is driven away in his wickedness ; but the righteous hath hope in his death. 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green...away, and lo, he was not; yea I sought him, but he would not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.... | |
 | George Coles - Apologetics - 1836 - 406 pages
...head to the skies. Thus, for example, (Ps. xxxvii. 35, 36,) ' / have seen the wicked in great power ; spreading himself like a green bay tree ; yet he passed...he was not ; yea I sought him, but he could not be found."1 He is so completely annihilated, that the very place where he stood was destroyed. Racine... | |
 | Wilson C. Rider - Sin - 1836 - 602 pages
...his wickedness ; but the righteous hath hope in his death. 1 have seen the wicked in great power, anJ spreading himself like a green bay tree : yet he passed...away, and lo, he was not; yea I sought him, but he would not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1836 - 448 pages
...seen the wicked," saith the Psalmist, " 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." * The common course of nature speedily puts an end to his career : and his place may be filled by the... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 418 pages
...bay-tree, or, a natire tree, which has grown from the seed without transplantation, in the same spot. 36. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. The great Babylonian monarch had his own exaltation, and subsequent degradation, portrayed to him in... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...see it. 35 h I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like ' a green bay-tree. 36 1 Dent. ïi. 6. Ps. il. 8. cxix. 98. Isai. Ii. 7. >• Or, goinys. с Ps. x. 8. -12 Pet. ii. 9. «... | |
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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. 
