1 Defend me, O Lord, for my walk has been blameless; in the Lord have I trusted unswervingly:
2 Examine me, Lord, and test me; test my heart and my mind.
3 For your love is before my eyes, and your faithfulness governs my way.
4 I never sat down with the worthless, nor companied with dissemblers.
5 I hate the assembly of knaves, I would never sit down with the wicked;
6 but, with hands washed in innocence, I would march round your altar, O Lord,
7 singing loud songs of thanks, and telling of all your wonders.
8 O Lord, I love your house, the place where your glory lives.
9 Do not gather me up with sinners; slay me not with people of blood,
10 whose hands are stained with villainy, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.
11 But my walk is blameless! O redeem me, be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on even ground, in the choirs I will bless the Lord.