Psalms 26:4-12

⁴One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple.

⁵For in the day of my afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

⁶And now, behold, he has lifted up my head over my enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord.

⁷Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and listen to me.

⁸My heart said to you, I have diligently sought your face: your face, O Lord, I will seek.

⁹Turn not your face away from me, turn not you away from your servant in anger: be you my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself.

¹¹Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of my enemies.

¹²Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.