Psalms 26:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[ A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ שָׁפְטֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֗ה כִּֽי־אֲ֭נִי בְּתֻמִּ֣י הָלַ֑כְתִּי וּבַיהוָ֥ה בָּ֝טַ֗חְתִּי לֹ֣א אֶמְעָֽד׃

Transliteration

Of Dāwid ׀ šāp̄əṭēnî YHWH kî-ʾănî in-tummî hālāḵtî and-in-YHWH bāṭaḥtî not ʾemʿād.

Grammar Details

• *Dāwid*: proper noun, prefixed with lamed preposition - of/belonging to David
• *šāp̄əṭēnî*: imperative verb with 1st person singular suffix - judge me
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *tummî*: noun 'integrity' with 1st person singular possessive suffix - my integrity
• *hālāḵtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have walked
• *bāṭaḥtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have trusted
• *ʾemʿād*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will slip/waver/slide

Word Meanings

• *šāp̄əṭēnî*: judge me/vindicate me
• *tummî*: my integrity/my innocence/my blamelessness
• *hālāḵtî*: I have walked/I have conducted myself
• *bāṭaḥtî*: I have trusted/I have relied
• *ʾemʿād*: I will slip/I will waver/I will be moved

Referenced Verses

• Ps 7:8 : 8 Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.
• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 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.
• Ps 28:7 : 7 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.
• Prov 20:7 : 7 A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
• Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
• 1 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby {G1722} justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Wherefore judge {G5100} nothing before {G302} 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. 6 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.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying 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.
• Heb 10:23 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall {G4417} never {G4218} stumble:
• Ps 31:14 : 14 But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.
• Ps 35:24 : 24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
• Ps 37:31 : 31 The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
• Ps 43:1 : 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
• Ps 54:1 : 1 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.
• Ps 62:2 : 2 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Ps 62:6 : 6 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be moved.
• Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
• Ps 121:3 : 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• Ps 121:7-8 : 7 Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. 8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.
• Ps 4:5 : 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in Jehovah.
• 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
• 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
• Ps 15:2 : 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart;
• Ps 21:7 : 7 For the king trusteth in Jehovah; And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
• Ps 25:2 : 2 O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
• Ps 25:21 : 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
• Ps 26:11 : 11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.