Psalms 26:1
By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified [are] my reins and my heart.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.
2 Kings 20:3'I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth — a great weeping.
Job 4:6Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope — the perfection of thy ways?
Psalms 7:8Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,
Psalms 21:7For the king is trusting in Jehovah, And in the kindness of the Most High He is not moved.
Psalms 25:21Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
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 →