A Psalm of David.
Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity:
I have trusted also in Jehovah {Or, I shall not slide}without wavering.
Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me;
Try my {Hebrew: reins.}heart and my mind.
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes;
And I have walked in thy truth.
I have not sat with men of falsehood;
Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers,
And will not sit with the wicked.
I will wash my hands in innocency:
So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
That I may {Or, publish with the voice of thanksgiving}make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard,
And tell of all thy wondrous works.
Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house,
And the place {Hebrew: of the tabernacle of thy glory.}where thy glory dwelleth.
{Or, Take not away}Gather not my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with men of blood;
In whose hands is wickedness,
And their right hand is full of bribes.
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity:
Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
My foot standeth in an even place:
In the congregations will I bless Jehovah.
Querverweise zu Psalm 26,1 Ps 26,1
Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples:Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity {Or, be it unto me}that is in me.
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity:Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,And put your trust in Jehovah.
For the king trusteth in Jehovah;And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness;And let them not rejoice over me.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,And speaketh truth in his heart;
O my God, in thee have I trusted,Let me not be put to shame;Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
The law of his God is in his heart;None of his steps shall slide.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,For I wait for thee.
Jehovah is my strength and my shield;My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped:Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;And with my song will I praise him.
He only is my rock and my salvation:He is my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?Save me, O God, by thy name,And judge me in thy might.
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.
But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah:I said, Thou art my God.
He only is my rock and my salvation:He is my high tower; I shall not be moved.
Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and {Hebrew: give sentence for me.}deliver me out of thy hand.
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,Blessed are his children after him.
The fear of man bringeth a snare;But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah {Hebrew: shall be set on high.}shall be safe.
When I said, My foot slippeth;Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be {Or, examined}judged of you, or of man's {Greek: day. See chapter 3:13.}judgment: yea, I {Or, examine}judge not mine own self.
For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that {Or, examineth}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.
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
{Or, Let him not suffer…Let him not slumber that &c.}He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Jehovah will keep thee from all evil;He will keep thy soul.
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming inFrom this time forth and for evermore.
He will keep the feet of his {Or, godly ones Another reading is, holy one.}holy ones;But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;For by strength shall no man prevail.
who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: