7. When the wicked spring as the grass, in
abundance, and apparent strength, hastening on their progress like verdant
plants, which come to perfection in a day, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, flowering in their prime and pride, their pomp and their
prosperity; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. They flower for
a short space to wither without end. Greatness and glory are to them but the
prelude of their overthrow. Little does their opposition matter; the Lord
reigns on as if they had never blasphemed him. The Most High is unaffected by
the fleeting mortals who dare oppose him: they will soon vanish forever from
among the living. But as for the wicked—how can our minds endure the
contemplation of their doom for ever? Destruction for ever is a
portion far too terrible for the mind to realize. Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, the full terror of the wrath to come!
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