Psalms 9:4

Psalms 9:4. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

One of our noblemen has this for his motto, "I will maintain it;" but the Christian has a far better one: "Thou hast maintained my right." If David sang thus after he had hurled the stone from his sling into Goliath’s skull, he might well magnify the name of the Lord, who had maintained the rights of his people, and put the uncircumcised champion of the Philistines to confusion and death.