< Psalms 26 >

1 Yahweh, show that I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong). I always do what is right; I have trusted in you and never doubted [that you would help me].
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 Yahweh, examine what I have done and test me; thoroughly evaluate what I think [IDM].
Try me, O Yahweh, and prove me, Test my reins and my heart: —
3 I never forget that you faithfully love me, I conduct my life according to your truth.
For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;
4 I do not spend my time with liars and I stay away from hypocrites.
I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;
5 I do not like to be with evil people, and I avoid wicked people.
I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;
6 Yahweh, I wash my hands to show that I (am innocent/have not done what was wrong). As I join with others marching around your altar,
I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, —so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
7 we sing songs to thank you, and we tell others the wonderful things that you [have done].
To sound aloud a song, and to recount all thy wonderful doings.
8 Yahweh, I love [to be in] the temple where you live, in the place where your glory appears.
O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory!
9 Do not get rid of me like you get rid of sinners; do not cause me to die like you cause those who murder [MTY] people to die,
Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life;
10 and people who [SYN] are ready to do wicked things and people who are always taking bribes.
In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.
11 But as for me, I always try to do what is right. So be kind to me and rescue me.
But, I, in my blamelessness, will walk, Redeem me and show me favour.
12 I stand in places where I am safe, and when [all your people] gather together, I praise you.
My foot standeth in a level place, In the convocations, will I bless Yahweh.

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