For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I ... have not wickedly departed from my God - literally, 'I was not evil from my God.' All wickedness is vile ingratitude in departing from our Greatest Benefactor. David, though he had in particular cases, through infirmity, grievously departed from God, yet had not departed in the sense of entirely renouncing his spiritual walk with God.