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 Protect my life and deliver me; * let me not be put to shame, for I have trusted in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, * for my hope has been in you.

Deliver Israel, O God, * out of all his troubles.

Give judgment for me, O , for I have lived with integrity; * I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.

Test me, O, and try me; * examine my heart and my mind.

For your love is before my eyes; * I have walked faithfully with you.

I have not sat with the worthless, * nor do I consort with the deceitful.

I have hated the company of evildoers; * I will not sit down with the wicked.

I will wash my hands in innocence, O, * that I may go in procession round your altar,

Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving * and recounting all your wonderful deeds.

, I love the house in which you dwell * and the place where your glory abides.

Do not sweep me away with sinners, * nor my life with those who thirst for blood,