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, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.

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

Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try 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 loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

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

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

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

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will 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 will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD,

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men

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

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

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

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

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

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