Psalm 26

¹Give judgment for me, O Lord, for I have lived with integrity; *I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.

²Test me, O Lord, and try me; *examine my heart and my mind.

³For your love is before my eyes; *I have walked faithfully with you.

⁴I have not sat with the worthless, *nor do I consort with the deceitful.

⁵I have hated the company of evildoers; *I will not sit down with the wicked.

⁶I will wash my hands in innocence, O Lord, *that I may go in procession round your altar,

⁷Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving *and recounting all your wonderful deeds.

⁸Lord, I love the house in which you dwell *and the place where your glory abides.

⁹Do not sweep me away with sinners, *nor my life with those who thirst for blood,

¹⁰Whose hands are full of evil plots, *and their right hand full of bribes.

¹¹As for me, I will live with integrity; *redeem me, O Lord, and have pity on me.

¹²My foot stands on level ground; *in the full assembly I will bless the Lord.