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1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him. Innocency itself is no fence to the name, though it is to the bosom, against the darts of calumny…
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