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 Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

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

Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified [are] my reins and my heart.

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

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

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

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

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

I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

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

I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

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

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

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

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

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

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

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

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

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

And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

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

My foot hath stood in uprightness, In assemblies I bless Jehovah!