1 Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
He only is my rock and my salvation: `He is' my high tower; I shall not be moved.
who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God. Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not `to go' beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
He only is my rock and my salvation: `He is' my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
Save me, O God, by thy name, And judge me in thy might.
The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
For the king trusteth in Jehovah; And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart;
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Commentary on Psalms 26 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 26
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 (v. 1, 2), for the proof of which he alleges,
In singing this psalm we must teach and admonish ourselves, and one another, what we must be and do that we may have the favour of God, and comfort in our own consciences, and comfort ourselves with it, as David does, if we can say that in any measure we have, through grace, answered to these characters. The learned Amyraldus, in his argument of his psalm, suggests that David is here, by the spirit of prophecy, carried out to speak of himself as a type of Christ, of whom what he here says of his spotless innocence, was fully and eminently true, and of him only, and to him we may apply it in singing this psalm. "We are complete in him.'
A psalm of David.
Psa 26:1-5
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him. Innocency itself is no fence to the name, though it is to the bosom, against the darts of calumny. Herein he was a type of Christ, who was made a reproach of men, and foretold to his followers that they also must have all manner of evil said against them falsely. Now see what David does in this case.
Psa 26:6-12
In these verses,