Psalms 139:22

The energy of the Psalmist's indignation seems to many readers to be a jarring note: yet it is but the limited and imperfect form in which he expresses his intense hatred of evil. "The duty of keeping alive in the human heart the sense of burning indignation against moral evil against selfishness, against injustice, against untruth, in ourselves as well as in others, that is as much a part of the Christian as of the Jewish dispensation." Stanley, Lect. on Jewish Church, 1. p. 216 (Lect. xi), quoted by Kay.