“"Let My judgment from Your countenance go forth." From the enlightening of the knowledge of You, let Me judge truth. Or at least, let My judgment go forth, not in deceitful lips, from Your countenance, that is, that I may not in judging utter anything else than I understand in You. "Let My eyes see equity:" the eyes,…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 17
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2Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
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1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
— Psalms 17:2 —
3Thou 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.
4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.