Psalm 18

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were before me,
and his statutes I did not put away from me.
I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

David was far from blameless. Scripture is full of David's wrong-doing and its consequences.

We might even conclude that departing from the Lord's path is crucial to David's righteousness (tsedeq) and his relationship with God.

The how and why of our spiritual failures are often fundamental to how we come to know God.

The image is of David and Bathsheba by Lika Tov.

Psalm 18