 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - Meditation - 1838 - 604 pages
...fully into this subject. He says, I have seen the wiched in great power, and spreading himself lihe a green bay tree, yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not. So Solomon testifies, the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. In the parable of the rich man and... | |
 | 1841
...happiness and peace, and by no other means hath such an end been gained." " ' I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green...not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.' ' How are they brought into desolation as in a moment ! they are suddenly consumed with terrors.' '... | |
 | George Rogers - Apologetics - 1839 - 396 pages
...of many wicked. 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." (Ps. xxxvii. 1, 2, 14 — 16, 35, 36.) " Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...shall see //. 35 1 have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 hs, we brought again 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man ¡s peace. 38 But the transgressors... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - Religion - 1884 - 196 pages
...safety, but is anxiously looking back upon the action of the Bull, as if saying, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree ; yet he passed away, nnd, lo, he is not : yea, I look for him, but he cannot be found" (Ps. 37 : 34-36). The whole picture... | |
 | Pope John Paul I - Christianity - 2001 - 292 pages
...see?' 'Don't worry,' the cardinal replied. 'His fate is set down in Psalm 37: "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green...passed away and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, and he could not be found." Sometimes that 'woe' doesn't mean divine punishment but human ridicule.... | |
 | Campbell Gillon - Religion - 1991 - 236 pages
...I quoted the Psalmist about the wicked flourishing like a green bay tree. The next verse continues, "Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." One year, all joy; the next, all gone. Poor, sad Lord Byron wasn't very old when he wrote: There's... | |
 | John Murray - Religion - 1957 - 274 pages
...of sin and whose life is constituted by sin may say with reference to the person translated from it, 'he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found'. The place that knew him knows him no more. There is a kingdom of sin, of darkness, and of death. The... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...foolish taking root: But suddenly 1 cursed his habitation'; and Psalm 37:35-6: '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' ('suddenly dissolve and fall away'?, 38). The repetition of 'I have seen' (35, 37) resembles Symons,... | |
 | John Murray - Religion - 1997 - 748 pages
...just as it is true with reference to life in the sphere of this world that the person who has died "passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found" (Psalm 37:36; cf. 103: 16), so is it with the sphere of sin; the believer is no longer there because... | |
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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. 
