Psalms 26

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¹ Of David. Grant me justice, LORD! I have walked without blame. In the LORD I have trusted; I have not faltered.	¹ A Psalm of David, before he was sealed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
² Test me, LORD, and try me; search my heart and mind.	² Meanwhile, the guilty draw near to me, so as to eat my flesh. Those who trouble me, my enemies, have themselves been weakened and have fallen.
³ Your love is before my eyes; I walk guided by your faithfulness.	³ If entrenched armies were to stand together against me, my heart would not fear. If a battle were to rise up against me, I would have hope in this.
⁴ I do not sit with deceivers, nor with hypocrites do I mingle.	⁴ One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, so that I may behold the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.
⁵ I hate the company of evildoers; with the wicked I do not sit.	⁵ For he has hidden me in his tabernacle. In the day of evils, he has protected me in the hidden place of his tabernacle.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence and walk round your altar, LORD,	⁶ He has exalted me upon the rock, and now he has exalted my head above my enemies. I have circled around and offered a sacrifice of loud exclamation in his tabernacle. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm, to the Lord.
⁷ Lifting my voice in thanks, recounting all your wondrous deeds.	⁷ Hear my voice, O Lord, with which I have cried out to you. Have mercy on me, and hear me.
⁸ LORD, I love the house where you dwell, the tenting-place of your glory.	⁸ My heart has spoken to you; my face has sought you. I yearn for your face, O Lord.
⁹ Do not take me away with sinners, nor my life with the violent.	⁹ Do not turn your face away from me. In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant. Be my helper. Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Saviour.
¹⁰ Their hands carry out their schemes; their right hands are full of bribes.	¹⁰ For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.
¹¹ But I walk without blame; redeem me, be gracious to me!	¹¹ O Lord, establish a law for me in your way, and direct me in the right path, because of my enemies.
	¹² Do not surrender me to the souls of those who trouble me. For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity has lied to itself.
	¹³ I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
	¹⁴ Wait for the Lord, act manfully; and let your heart be strengthened, and remain with the Lord.