26:1 Dismiss all the charges against me, Lord, for I have tried to keep your laws and have trusted you without wavering.
26:2 Cross-examine me, O Lord, and see that this is so; test my motives and affections too.
26:3 For I have taken your loving-kindness and your truth as my ideals.
26:4 I do not have fellowship with tricky, two-faced men; they are false and hypocritical.
26:5 I hate the sinners’ hangouts and refuse to enter them.
26:6 I wash my hands to prove my innocence and come before your altar,
26:7 singing a song of thanksgiving and telling about your miracles.
26:8 Lord, I love your home, this shrine where the brilliant, dazzling splendor of your presence lives.
26:9 Don’t treat me as a common sinner or murderer who plots against the innocent and demands bribes.
26:10 Don’t treat me as a common sinner or murderer who plots against the innocent and demands bribes.
26:11 No, I am not like that, O Lord; I try to walk a straight and narrow path of doing what is right; therefore in mercy save me.
26:12 I publicly praise the Lord for keeping me from slipping and falling.
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