1 Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2 Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
3 For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
4 I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
5 I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.
8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
12 My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.
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Today's Verse
if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
Verse Of The DayHe describes washing his hands in innocency and compassing God's altar with thanksgiving, showing a love for "the habitation of thy house." This self-examination follows Psalms 25 and pairs with Psalms 139:23-24; next comes Psalms 27.
