Psalms 17:2

I will love you, O Lord my strength.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

In Context

1Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:

3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

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Cross References

Psalms 37:6My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face of my foolishness.

Ezekiel 18:25And you have said, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Therefore, listen, O house of Israel. How could it be that my way is not fair? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?

Ezekiel 33:17And the sons of your people have said, ‘The way of the Lord is not a fair balance,’ even while their own way is unjust.

2 Thessalonians 1:6For certainly, it is just for God to repay trouble to those who trouble you,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 17:2-8

Sincere and Importunate Prayer. 1 Hear the right, O Lord , attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings… Read the whole commentary →

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