| Gardiner Spring - Christian life - 1813 - 244 pages
...as in a moment ! — 1 have seen the wicktd 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. Surely, thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou easiest them down... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree growing in his own soil ; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." And he thus describes the blessed and happy effects — "Mark the perfect... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...be broken." Yea, "the wicked shall perish; they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. He passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." How expressively does this declare the truth, that evil, combined with... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...shall see it. 3d 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 perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man... | |
| 1817 - 1082 pages
...in great "Joks-3power, and spreading himself like || a ]£}£*f "" green bay tree. jTL,"/. ,„ 36 a, "let there be but he could *"• not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for Jthe end of that... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and to, 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. The transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 550 pages
...bay-tree, or, a native 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,... | |
| Gardiner Spring - Christian life - 1819 - 194 pages
...desolation, as in a moment! I have seen the wicked Ln 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. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou easiest them down into... | |
| William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...holes." (Hag. i. 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: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." "These shall go away into everlasting punishment." (Matt. xxv. 46.) "Their... | |
| Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1821 - 542 pages
...of their expression. " 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." ESSAY VII. The Reign O/CHAKLES I. continued, from the Death of Buckingham... | |
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