(26) A Psalm of David.
1Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.
2Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart.
3For your mercy is before my eyes: and I am well pleased with your truth.
4I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors.
5I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.
6I will wash my hands in 1 innocency, and compass your altar, O Lord:
7to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works.
8O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house, and the place of the tabernacle of your glory.
9Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men:
10in whose hands are iniquities, and their right hand is filled with bribes.
11But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.
12My foot stands in 2 an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord.
- Gr. innocent things.
- Gr. in evenness or uprightness.
Text: the Septuagint in the translation of Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851), revised in American English by Michael Paul Johnson (LXX2012). Public domain. The Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible is in preparation.
