The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Innocence. Hebrew, "simplicity "which has the same meaning. (Haydock) He speaks of the justice of his cause (Muis) against his particular enemies. (Worthington)
St. Paul thus commends himself, 2 Timothy iv. 7. The justice of the saints is not merely imputed, as the first Protestants foolishly imagined: for how should God reward those whom he saw still in sin, and who were only reputed holy? a notion which their disciples have modified or abandoned, as they have also done what had been taught respecting grace. Justice is an effect of God's grace, and of man's co-operation, 1 Corinthians xv. 10. (Berthier)
David begs that the disposer of kingdoms would convince Saul that he was not a rebel: and the world, that he had not lost God's favour, like his rival. (Haydock)
