Psalms · 12 verses

Psalms 26

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David asks the LORD to examine his heart, refuses the company of deceitful men, and ends with his feet on level ground in the congregations.

An open examinationvv. 1–3

David begins by asking for vindication, then makes the rather fearless request: “Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.” His confidence rests on a walk marked by integrity, the LORD’s loving devotion before his eyes, and the LORD’s truth beneath his feet.

The company he keepsvv. 4–8

David’s integrity has a social shape: he does not sit with deceitful men, hypocrites, or the wicked. Having washed his hands in innocence, he goes about the LORD’s altar with thanksgiving, while declaring the LORD’s wonderful works. Then comes the tender centre of the passage: “I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.”

A level-ground endingvv. 9–12

The plea turns from company avoided to danger escaped: David asks not to be taken away with sinners, whose hands hold wicked schemes and bribes. He repeats his resolve to walk with integrity, asks for redemption and mercy, and finishes not in midair but on level ground, among the congregations.

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Ps 26:1Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Ps 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Ps 26:3For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
Ps 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
Ps 26:5I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
Ps 26:7to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.
Ps 26:8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Ps 26:9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
Ps 26:10in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
Ps 26:11But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
Ps 26:12My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.

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Where this is echoed

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2 Psalms 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
2 Psalms 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
4 Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
1 Psalms 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
1 Psalms 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
4 Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
12 Psalms 27:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
2 Psalms 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
4 Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
5 Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
8 Psalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
12 Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
1 Proverbs 20:7The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
3 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
3 1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
4 2 Corinthians 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

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