Psalm 26:1-12

David’s. 26  Do me justice, O Yahweh, For I in my blamelessness have walked, And in Yahweh have I trusted, I will not waver.  Try me, O Yahweh, and prove me, Test my reins and my heart:—  For thy lovingkindness hath been before mine eyes, And I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;  I have not sat with men of deceit, Nor with dissemblers would I enter;  I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, And with lawless men would I not sit;  I will bathe in pureness my hands,—So will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;  To sound aloud a song, And to recount all thy wonderful doings.  O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, Even the place of the habitation of thy glory!  Do not remove with sinners my soul, Nor with men of bloodshed my life; 10  In whose hands is a plot, And their right hand is filled with a bribe. 11  But I in my blamelessness will walk, Redeem me and shew me favour. 12  My foot standeth in a level place, In the convocations will I bless Yahweh.

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