Psalms 17:2
You are the one who is able to declare that I ◄am innocent/have not done anything that was wrong► because you see/know that I am telling the truth.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 37:6He will show as clearly as the sunlight that you ◄are innocent/have done nothing that is wrong►; he will show as clearly as the sun at noontime [SIM] that all the things that you have decided are just.
Ezekiel 18:25But you say, ‘Yahweh does not act fairly!’ You Israeli people, listen to what I say: It is certainly not [RHQ] what I do that is unfair, it is what you continually do that is not fair/right!
Ezekiel 33:17Your fellow Israelis say, ‘What Yahweh does is not fair.’ But it is your behavior that is not fair.
2 Thessalonians 1:6God will certainly cause trouble for those people who are troubling you, because he considers that it is just that he should punish such people for doing that to 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 →