 | Daniel Wilson - 1832 - 478 pagina’s
...THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF INFIDELS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF SINCERE CHRISTIANS PSALM xxxvii. 35 — 37. / 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pagina’s
...this world may seem to favor vice and crime. We look at the prevalence, and disasters of sin. We see the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree. We see virtue in an humble vale, poor, oppressed, resisted, despised. We see some towering scheme of... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pagina’s
...and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. ^f 33 I have seen the wicked in great power ; and spreading himself like a green bay-tree: 34 Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - 1998 - 536 pagina’s
...society shall flourish as the green bay tree" The verse to which Pinchas is alluding is Psalms 37:36: "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree"; it also appears in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, with the verb "flourishing." 79. Harrow an elite... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pagina’s
...which could naturally be green, some readers may hear an echo of the green bay tree in Psalms 37:35: "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." Grave men: The adjective grave that means serious comes from the Latin gravis, "heavy"; the noun "grave"... | |
 | Laurance Wieder - 1999 - 338 pagina’s
...way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 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 him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1999 - 428 pagina’s
...fascinates' (82). The title is a biblical quotation, offered by Julian's Bible-bashing father: 'I myself have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree' (76). Lady Violet Bonham Carter remarked that 'many of those who saw "The Green Bay Tree" . . . regarded... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - 540 pagina’s
...the time of the end had verily come ; and, after a short space more, they would be able to say : " 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."... | |
 | Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2000 - 530 pagina’s
...thee to inherit the land: when the Watchers are cut off, thou shalt see it. I have seen the Watcher in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet the Watcher passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. end of... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pagina’s
...way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 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... | |
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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. 
