Psalms 26

1 [By David.] Judge me, Jehovah, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Jehovah 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 Examine me, Jehovah, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

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

3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. 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 have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

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

5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

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

6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Jehovah;

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

7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous works.

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

8 Jehovah, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

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

9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

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

10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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

11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

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

12 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Jehovah.

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