| Abner Alden - 1824 - 108 pages
...way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land ; when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt Bte it, I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay tree : yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; yea, 1 sought him, but he could not be found. Murfc the... | |
| 1826 - 320 pages
...his happy spirit to Abraham's bosom. (Luke xvi. 19 — 23.) David saw, and it has often since been seen, ",the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay tree." Asaph saw, and was discouraged, the prosperity of the wicked and the afflictions of the righteous;... | |
| Henry Belfrage - 1827 - 710 pages
...leader in battle and conquest has perished as an exile and a captire on a rock in the ocean. " I saw the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay tree : he passed, yea, was not : I sought him, but he could not be found."* 2. This warning teaches us,... | |
| Henry Cogswell Knight - 1831 - 278 pages
...polluted forever. Very many passages clearly prove that the earth shall be purgid from the wicked. I have seen the wicked in great power, '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. Here the passing... | |
| George Coles - 1836 - 406 pages
...like the cedar, to raise his proud 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 away, and lo, he was not ; yea I sought him, but he could not be found."1 He is so... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1842 - 578 pages
...orders, [ Nerium Oleander, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. BAY. Psalm i. 3. ; xxxvii. 35. Daniel, iv. 4. " I HAVE seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green Bay tree ; yet he passed away." —Ps. xxxvii. This striking exclamation is the only passage in which the Bay... | |
| Charles Chauncey Burr - 1844 - 152 pages
...Crimes. They prosper in their house, and in their field. David bears testimony to this, when he says, " I have seen the wicked. in great power, spreading himself like a green bay tree." But the next verse says, " Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could... | |
| 1847 - 602 pages
...triumphing, of virtue struggling with poverty, i and misery, of wickedness revelling in abundance. 'I have seen ' the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green deep- •• rooted tree,' (Psa. xxxvii. 35.) ' His (the wicked's) ways are always prosperous, far... | |
| 1848
...ROSE-BAY. Two plants claim to be the bay of Scripture : these are the green-bay, and the rose-bay. " I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away." (Psalm xxxvii. 35.) This striking exclamation is the only passage in... | |
| Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...result of his own personal experience, that the wicked do not continue in prosperity. He says, " I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away," Pa. xxxvii. 35, 36. How beautifully is the bay-tree made emblematic... | |
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