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Psalms 26

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Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering. Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth. I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh, that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds. Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

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Psalms 26:3

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"For Your mercy is before my eyes" [Psalm 26:3]. For, that I be not consumed by that fire, not my merits, but Your mercy, whereby You have brought me on to such a life, is before my eyes. "And I have been pleasing in Your truth." And since my own falsehood has been displeasing to me, but Your truth pleasing, I have myself been pleasing also with it and in it.

Exposition on Psalm 26 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Here he excuses himself in two ways for asking to be tried. First from his thought, because he thinks of God's mercy, when he says, "Because your mercy is before my eyes"; as if to say, I ask to be tried because I trust in your mercy, which always provides a way out with the temptation: Is. 63: "I will remember the mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things the Lord has rendered to me." Likewise from the love of justice. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗