Good] Just: no other then what I and my people have deserved. See such an acknowledgement, 1 Samuel 3:18. Job 1:21.
Is it not good, if peace and truth, &c.] Or, Shall there not be peace and truth, &c.
Is it not] This interrogation is a confirmation of the point.
if peace] This is added not simply as a reason of the justice of the cause, but as an amplification of mercy mixed with justice.