Psalms 26:1-30:12 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

AKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. ³ For your loving kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD: ⁷ That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works. ⁸ LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: ¹⁰ In whose hands is mischief, 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 will I bless the LORD. ²⁷ ¹ The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ² When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. ⁴ One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. ⁵ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock. ⁶ And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. ⁷ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also on me, and answer me. ⁸ When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek. ⁹ Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. ¹¹ Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. ²⁸ ¹ To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. ⁵ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him. ⁸ The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. ⁹ Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. ²⁹ ¹ Give to the LORD, O you mighty, give to the LORD glory and strength. ² Give to the LORD the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. ³ The voice of the LORD is on the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is on many waters. ⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. ⁷ The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory. ¹⁰ The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits King for ever. ¹¹ The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. ³ O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. ⁶ And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. ⁷ LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ I cried to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me: LORD, be you my helper. ¹¹ You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹² To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.