Psalms 26:1
Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Job 4:6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Psalms 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
Psalms 21:7For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
Psalms 25:21May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 26:1
Holy David is in this psalm putting himself upon a solemn trial, not by God and his country, but by God and his own conscience, to both which he appeals touching his integrity ( ver. 1, 2 ), for the proof of which he alleges, I. His constant regard to God and his grace, ver. 3 . II. His rooted antipathy to sin and sinners, ver. 4, 5 . III. His sincere affection to the ordinances of God, and his care about them, ver. 6-8 . Having thus proved his integrity, 1. He deprecates the doom of the wicked, ver. 9, 10 . 2. He… Read the whole commentary →