Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 26
1Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering. 2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. 3For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; and I have walked in thy truth. 4I have not sat with vain persons; neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5I hate the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked. 6I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass thine altar, O LORD: 7That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all thy wondrous works. 8LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth. 9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood: 10In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 12My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.