Psalms 18:24

“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 Psalms 18:20. In his eyesight - Margin, as in Hebrew, before his eyes. The idea is that God saw that he was upright. return to…”

“Iniquity - From that sin which I was most inclined or tempted to. Psalms 18:25”

“the Lord recompensed me: Rut 2:12; Mat 10:41, Mat 10:42; Th2 1:6, Th2 1:7; Heb 6:16 in his eyesight: Heb. before his eyes Psalms 18:25”

“(Heb.: 18:25-28) What was said in Psa 18:21 is again expressed here as a result of the foregoing, and substantiated in Psa 18:26, Psa 18:27. חסיד is a friend of God and man, just as pius is used of behaviour to men as well as towards God. גּבר תמים the man (construct of גּבר) of moral and religious completeness (integri = integritatis, cf. Psa 15:2), i.e., of undivided devotion to God. נבר (instead of which we find בּר לבב elsewhere, Psa 24:4; Psa 73:1) not one who is purified, but, in accordance with the reflexive primary meaning of Niph., one who is purifying himself, ἁγνίζων ἑαυτόν, Jo1 3:3. עקּשׁ (the opposite of ישׂר) one who is morally distorted, perverse. Freely formed Hithpaels…”