Psalm 26:1-8 – "I Will Wash My Hands in Innocence"
Prayer and song for God,
based on the psalter of "Evangelical Lutheran Worship" & original tune
Pastor Joel S Neubauer
St Mark Lutheran Church (ELCA), Yorktown, Virginia
Shared in the season after Pentecost 2020 (Covid-19/coronavirus)

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Psalm 26:1-9

Give judgment for me, O Lord,
for I have lived with integrity;
I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.
Test me, O Lord, and try me;
examine my heart and my mind.
For your steadfast 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 Lord,
that I may go in procession round your altar,
singing aloud a song of thanksgiving
and recounting all your wonderful deeds.
Lord, I love the house in which you dwell
and the place where your glory abides.