PSALM 26

    ¹For David.

    Judge me, O LORD.

          For I have walked in my wholeness,

                And the LORD I have trusted.

                    I shall not stumble.

    ²Test me, O LORD, and try me.

          Burn pure my conscience and my heart.

    ³For Your kindness is before my eyes

          and I shall walk in Your truth.

    ⁴I have not sat with lying folk

          nor with furtive men have dealt.

    ⁵I despised the assembly of evildoers,

          nor with the wicked have I sat.

    ⁶Let me wash my palms in cleanness

          and go round Your altar, LORD,

    ⁷to utter aloud a thanksgiving

          and to recount all Your wonders.

    ⁸LORD, I love the abode of Your house

          and the place where Your glory dwells.

    ⁹Do not take my life-breath with offenders

          nor with blood-guilty men my life,

    ¹⁰in whose hands there are plots,

          their right hand full of bribes.

    ¹¹But I shall walk in my wholeness.

          Redeem me, grant me grace.

    ¹²My foot stands on level ground.

          In the chorus I bless the LORD.