O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
If I have done this - namely, that which my calumniators lay to my charge (Psalms 7:4; cf. 1 Samuel 24:9), "David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou, men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?"
If there be iniquity in my hands. The "hands" are often the instruments of sin (Psalms 24:4). There is an undesigned coincidence (the strongest proof of the genuineness of both) between the language of David here, and that attributed to him in the history in addressing Saul (1 Samuel 24:10-11), "The Lord delivered thee today into mine hand, but ... I said I will not put forth mine hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. Moreover, ... see the skirt of thy robe in mine hand, for in that I ... killed thee not, know ... there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand," and 26:18. The root meaning of the Hebrew iniquity х `aawel (H5766)] is distortion, perverseness.