Psalms 26

1 Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

David’s. Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.

2 Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

Try me, O Yahweh, and prove me, Test my reins and my heart: —

3 For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;

4 I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;

5 I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;

6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, —so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;

7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

To sound aloud a song, and to recount all thy wonderful doings.

8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory!

9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life;

10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

But, I, in my blamelessness, will walk, Redeem me and show me favour.

12 My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.

My foot standeth in a level place, In the convocations, will I bless Yahweh.