Psalm 26 (KJV)

The text, King James Version

1. 1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
2. 2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
3. 3For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
4. 4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5. 5I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6. 6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
7. 7That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
8. 8LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9. 9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
10. 10In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
11. 11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
12. 12My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

Summary of the chapter

From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary.

David, in this psalm, appeals to God touching his integrity. --David here, by the Spirit of prophecy, speaks of himself as a type of Christ, of whom what he here says of his spotless innocence was fully and eminently true, and of Christ only, and to Him we may apply it. We are complete in him. The man that walks in his integrity, yet trusting wholly in the grace of God, is in a state of acceptance, according to the covenant of which Jesus was the Mediator, in virtue of his spotless obedience…