Psalm 26:1-Psalm 27:1 - Prayer For Vindication

¹ Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver. ² Try me, O Yahweh, and prove me, Test my reins and my heart: - ³ For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;

⁴ I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter; ⁵ I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit; ⁶ I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh; ⁷ To sound aloud a song, and to recount all thy wonderful doings.

⁸ O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory! ⁹ Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life; ¹⁰ In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

¹¹ But, I, in my blamelessness, will walk, Redeem me and show me favour. ¹² My foot standeth in a level place, In the convocations, will I bless Yahweh.

¹ Yahweh, is my light and my salvation, Of whom shall I be afraid? Yahweh, is the refuge of my life, Of whom shall I be in dread?