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Psalm 26
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Psalm of David.
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3For thy
4I have not
5I have
6I will
7That I may
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10In whose
11But as for me, I will
12My
Footnotes
Vindicate Me, O LORD
Of David.
1Vindicate me, O LORD!For I have walked with integrity;I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. 2Test me, O LORD, and try me;examine my heartfootnote aand mind. 3For Your loving devotion is before my eyes,and I have walked in Your truth.
4I do not sit with deceitful men,nor keep company with hypocrites. 5I hate the mob of evildoers,and refuse to sit with the wicked. 6I wash my hands in innocencethat I may go about Your altar, O LORD, 7to raise my voice in thanksgivingand declare all Your wonderful works.
8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell,the place where Your glory resides. 9Do not take my soul away with sinners,or my life with men of bloodshed, 10in whose hands are wicked schemes,whose right hands are full of bribes.
11But I will walk with integrity;redeem me and be merciful to me. 12My feet stand on level ground;in the congregations I will bless the LORD.
Footnotes
- a 26:2 Hebrew my kidneys
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