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.

A psalm of David. Defend me, O Lord, for my walk has been blameless; in the Lord have I trusted unswervingly:

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

Examine me, Lord, and test me; test my heart and my mind.

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

For your love is before my eyes, and your faithfulness governs my way.

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

I never sat down with the worthless, nor companied with dissemblers.

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

I hate the assembly of knaves, I would never sit down with the wicked;

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

but, with hands washed in innocence, I would march round your altar, O Lord,

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

singing loud songs of thanks, and telling of all your wonders.

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

O Lord, I love your house, the place where your glory lives.

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

Do not gather me up with sinners; slay me not with people of blood,

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

whose hands are stained with villainy, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

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

But my walk is blameless! O redeem me, be gracious to me.

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

My foot stands on even ground, in the choirs I will bless the Lord.