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Psalm 18:23-24 KJV
Psalms · chapter 18 · verses 23–24
23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.Psalm 18:23-24 · King James Version
Psalm 18:23-24 in context
21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsedeqthe rightH6664 →
- recompensedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- cleannessbôrpurifyH1252 →
- uprighttâmîymentireH8549 →
- handsyâda handH3027 →
- keptshâmarproperly, to hedge aboutH8104 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Here, I. David reflects with comfort upon his own integrity, and rejoices in the testimony of his conscience that he had had his conversation in godly sincerity and not with fleshly wisdom, Co2 1:12. His deliverances were an evidence of this, and this was the great comfort of his deliverances.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-28