1 > Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God. Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
The fear of man proves to be a snare, But whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.
> Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness; Don't let them gloat over me.
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
He who walks blamelessly does what is right, And speaks 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,