 | William Cobbett - 1801 - 594 pagina’s
...— " 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." * Rush despises a knowledge of the learned languages for much about the same reason that an ugly old... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 354 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1803 - 472 pagina’s
...skies. [7] I have seen the nicked 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 is so completely annihilated, that the very place where he stood was destroyed. M. Racine has translated... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pagina’s
...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^... | |
 | James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pagina’s
...; " 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," Psal. xxxvii. 35, 36. Nor will a reflection on their latter end yield the smallest satisfaction to... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1811 - 394 pagina’s
...the heart. " 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." But what a sensibility is produced by the loss of an individual who filled LIO public office, who possessed... | |
 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 pagina’s
...the skies. "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." He is so completely annihilated, that the very place, where he stood, was destroyed. M, Racine has... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pagina’s
...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.' It is observable,... | |
 | 1813 - 744 pagina’s
...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. v. 35, ;i6. This sublime sentence is accomplished in all its force, on our arrogant and... | |
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Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 
