Psalms 18:24
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
Webster's Revision
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
World English Bible
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Barnes's Psalms 18:24 Bible Commentary
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me - By delivering me from my enemies. The divine interpositions in his behalf had been of the nature of a reward or recompense.
According to my righteousness - As if I were righteous; or, his acts of intervention have been such as are appropriate to a righteous life. The psalmist does not say that it was on account of his righteousness as if he had merited the favor of God, but that the interpositions in his behalf had been such as to show that God regarded him as righteous.
According to the cleanness of my hands - See the note at Psalm 18:20.
In his eyesight - Margin, as in Hebrew, before his eyes. The idea is that God saw that he was upright.
Wesley's Psalms 18:24 Bible Commentary
18:24 Iniquity - From that sin which I was most inclined or tempted to.
