Psalms 69:4

Psalms 69:4. I restored that which I took not away— What I have not taken away, I restore upon the spot. i.e. "I have been so far from provoking their malice, that I have been content, rather than quarrel with them, to part with my own right, and to make them satisfaction for wrongs which I never did them." The Liturgy version, which is followed by many, begins the fifth verse with this clause: to which the next is supposed to refer: O God thou knowest my simpleness, &c. as much as to say, "Thou knowest the simplicity of my heart, and that though I have been guilty of offences towards thee, yet have I never injured those who thus cruelly hate and persecute me."