Psalms 26

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

BY DAVID. Judge me, O YHWH, for I have walked in my integrity, And I have trusted in YHWH, I do not slide.

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

Try me, O YHWH, and prove me, My reins and my heart [are] purified,

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

For Your kindness [is] before my eyes, And I have habitually walked in Your truth.

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

I have not sat with vain men, And I do not enter with pretenders.

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

I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And I do not sit with the wicked.

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

I wash my hands in innocence, And I go around Your altar, O YHWH.

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

To sound with a voice of confession, And to recount all Your wonders.

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

YHWH, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place of the Dwelling Place of Your glory.

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

Do not gather my soul with sinners, And my life with men of blood,

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

In whose hand [is] a wicked scheme, And their right hand [is] full of bribes.

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

And I walk in my integrity, Redeem me, and favor me.

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

My foot has stood in uprightness, In assemblies I bless YHWH!