Psalms 26:1-5

¹A psalm of David. Defend me, O Lord, for my walk has been blameless; in the Lord have I trusted unswervingly:

²Examine me, Lord, and test me; test my heart and my mind.

³For your love is before my eyes, and your faithfulness governs my way.

⁴I never sat down with the worthless, nor companied with dissemblers.

⁵I hate the assembly of knaves, I would never sit down with the wicked;