The Lord is our hope in the face of calamity; He protects us from our enemies. But how can we turn to Him when our conscience is troubled?
Someone who is unsure of having the right to count on the Lord's mercy doubts whether their good deeds are sufficient for justification. Anyone who asks God to judge according to truth must be prepared for the fact that God sees the truth more deeply than any of us. We would like the way we are treated to be based on our settled ideas of justice. But God may not find in the person crying out to Him the righteousness He wants to see in each of us. Therefore, when I denounce an ungodly enemy, the denunciation may return to me, as I repeat the psalmist's words while forgetting my own lawlessness.
But precisely because truth is in the Lord's hands and before His eyes, we can hope for the justice of His judgment.
