Psalm 26

Common Metre (8,6,8,6)

Suggested Tunes: 127 St Thomas, 74 Hermon, 112 St Flavian, 115 St James

1    Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk’d

            in mine integrity:

      I trusted also in the Lord;

            slide therefore shall not I.

2    Examine me, and do me prove;

            try heart and reins, O God:

3    For thy love is before mine eyes,

            thy truth’s paths I have trode.

4    With persons vain I have not sat,

            nor with dissemblers gone:

5    Th’ assembly of ill men I hate;

            to sit with such I shun.

6    Mine hands in innocence, O Lord,

            I’ll wash and purify;

      So to thine holy altar go,

            and compass it will I:

7    That I, with voice of thanksgiving,

            may publish and declare,

      And tell of all thy mighty works,

            that great and wondrous are.

8    The habitation of thy house,

            Lord, I have loved well;

      Yea, in that place I do delight

            where doth thine honour dwell.

9    With sinners gather not my soul,

            and such as blood would spill:

10  Whose hands mischievous plots, right hand

            corrupting bribes do fill.

11  But as for me, I will walk on

            in mine integrity:

      Do thou redeem me, and, O Lord,

            be merciful to me.

12  My foot upon an even place

            doth stand with stedfastness:

      Within the congregations

            th’ Eternal I will bless.