Psalms 26–30

By David.

¹Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.

²Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

³For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

⁴I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

⁵I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

⁶I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD,

⁷that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

⁸LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

⁹Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men

¹⁰in whose hands is wickedness; their right hand is full of bribes.

¹¹But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

¹²My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless the LORD.

By David.

¹The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

²When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

³Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

⁴One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

⁵For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

⁶Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

⁷Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

⁸When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”

⁹Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

¹⁰When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

¹¹Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

¹²Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

By David.

¹To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

²Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

³Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

⁴Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

⁵Because they don’t respect the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

⁷The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

⁸The LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

⁹Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

A Psalm by David.

¹Ascribe to the LORD, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

²Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Worship the LORD in holy array.

³The LORD’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.

⁴The LORD’s voice is powerful. The LORD’s voice is full of majesty.

⁵The LORD’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

⁷The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

⁸The LORD’s voice shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

¹⁰The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

¹¹The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.

A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.

¹I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

²LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

³LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

⁵For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁶As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

⁷You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

⁸I cried to you, LORD. I made supplication to the Lord:

⁹“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

¹⁰Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper.”

¹¹You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

¹²to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!