...High ? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world, they increase in riches. 13 Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 When I thought to know...

...is ready to ask, " How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?" and to say, " Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence." " It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that...

...Most High ? Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I heen plagued, and chastened every morning." The Psalmist is greatly perplexed,...

...seventy-third Psalm has recorded his feelings in such circumstances. He was tempted to say, " verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency : " and we can hardly suppose Lazarus a stranger to such feelings towards Dives. A further cause of...

...exclaim with the Psalmist — " Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in this world;" "Verily, / have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency."* He might, I say, be at a loss to answer these dark questions, and to explain such an apparent mystery...

...like other men. Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world, they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. When I thought to know this it was...

...the ways of divine Providence. A view of the temporal prosperity of the wicked made him exclaim, « I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency." David, however, soon learned to estimate with more justice and reverence the dispensations of Heaven....

...reader, appalled at these monstrous delusions, almost involuntarily exclaim with the Psalmist, "Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency." (Psalm Ixxiii. 13) It has been I know, asserted in defence of this dogma, that nothing but perfect...

...that the weak in faith are sometimes put to a stand by events like these, and are led to say, " Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency." " Thy way is in the sea, thy footsteps are not known ?" 5. The poverty of the liberal, while the churl...

...undertake, and roll in riches ! What are we to think of God, his providence, and his promises P 13. Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency : 14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. Nature will be apt upon...