Kommentar zu Tehillim 17:2

May my judgment come forth from before You May the sins for which I deserve to be judged with torments, go forth from before You and not come before You in judgment.

Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence: – My revered father, of blessed memory, has interpreted: that this prayer has reference to the incident of Bathsheba; and that he (David) is interceding before the Holy – One Blessed be He ! – and says: יצא משׁפטי מלפניך, i-e. May this sentence pass forth from Thee, so that Thou wilt not condemn me in it.

may Your eyes see [my] upright acts If I have merits, may Your eyes see the upright acts.

Let Thine eyes regard the right: – Behold the right that I have done, and regard not this iniquity; and judge me in the multitude of my good deeds, and not for this iniquity. And he says: