Psalms 26:1-30:12 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. ³ For thy loving kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD, ⁷ that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all thy wondrous works. ⁸ LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood, ¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. ¹² My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless LORD. ²⁷ ¹ LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. ⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up upon a rock. ⁶ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to LORD. ⁷ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. ⁸ My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face. ⁹ Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up. ¹¹ Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD. ²⁸ ¹ To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense, ⁵ because they regard not the works of LORD, nor the operation of his hands. He will break them down and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him. ⁸ LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. ⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. ²⁹ ¹ Ascribe to LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe to LORD glory and strength. ² Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Worship LORD in holy array. ³ The voice of LORD is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even LORD upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of LORD is powerful. The voice of LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of LORD breaks the cedars. Yea, LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. ⁷ The voice of LORD splits the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of LORD shakes the wilderness. LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of LORD makes the hinds to calve, and strips the forests bare. And in his temple everything says, Glory. ¹⁰ LORD sat as King at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever. ¹¹ LORD will give strength to his people. LORD will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou have healed me. ³ O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing praise to LORD, O ye sanctified of his, and give thanks to his holiness. ⁵ For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy is in the morning. ⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled. ⁸ I cried to thee, O LORD, and to LORD I made supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me. LORD, be thou my helper. ¹¹ Thou have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness, ¹² to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee forever.