Psalms 26:11

Christian Standard Bible ®

But I live with integrity;redeem me and be gracious to me.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

King James Version
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

English Standard Version
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.

New Century Version
But I have lived an innocent life, so save me and have mercy on me.

New English Translation
But I have integrity! Rescue me and have mercy on me!

Amplified Bible
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be merciful and gracious to me.

New American Standard Bible
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

World English Bible
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But I will walke in mine innocencie: redeeme me therefore, and be mercifull vnto me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Berean Standard Bible
But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

Contemporary English Version
I stay true to myself. Be kind and rescue me.

Complete Jewish Bible
As for me, I will live a blameless life. Redeem me and show me favor.

Darby Translation
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me, and be gracious unto me.

Easy-to-Read Version
But I am innocent, so be kind to me and save me.

George Lamsa Translation
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; save me and be merciful unto me.

Good News Translation
As for me, I do what is right; be merciful to me and save me!

Lexham English Bible
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me.

Literal Translation
But I will walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But as for me I will walke innocently: O delyuer me, and be mercifull vnto me.

American Standard Version
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Bible in Basic English
But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity; redeem me, and be gracious unto me.

King James Version (1611)
But as for mee, I will walke in mine integritie: redeeme me, and bee mercifull vnto me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But as for me I wyll walke in my perfection: O redeeme me, and be mercyfull vnto me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.

English Revised Version
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Y entride in myn innocens; ayenbie thou me, and haue merci on me.

Update Bible Version
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.

New King James Version
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be merciful to me.

New Living Translation
But I am not like that; I live with integrity. So redeem me and show me mercy.

New Life Bible
But as for me, I will live a life without blame. Make me free, and show me loving-kindness.

New Revised Standard
But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, I, in my blamelessness, will walk, Redeem me and show me favour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(25-11) But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

Revised Standard Version
But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Young's Literal Translation
And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

THE MESSAGE
You know I've been aboveboard with you; now be aboveboard with me. I'm on the level with you, God ; I bless you every chance I get.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Contextual Overview

⁶I wash my hands in innocenceand go around your altar, Lord, ⁷raising my voice in thanksgivingand telling about your wondrous works. ⁸Lord, I love the house where you dwell,the place where your glory resides. ⁹Do not destroy me along with sinners,or my life along with men of bloodshed ¹⁰in whose hands are evil schemesand whose right hands are filled with bribes. ¹¹But I live with integrity;redeem me and be gracious to me.¹²My foot stands on level ground;I will bless the Lord in the assemblies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Psalms 26:1, 1 Samuel 12:2-5, 2 Chronicles 31:20, 2 Chronicles 31:21, Nehemiah 5:15, Job 1:1, Isaiah 38:3, Luke 1:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:10

redeem: Psalms 49:7, Psalms 49:15, Psalms 69:18, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19

and: Psalms 103:3, Psalms 103:4, Psalms 103:7, Psalms 103:8, Nehemiah 13:14, Nehemiah 13:22, Nehemiah 13:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 5:22 - General 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou Psalms 7:8 - to mine Psalms 25:21 - General Psalms 44:26 - redeem Psalms 69:16 - turn Proverbs 10:9 - that walketh Proverbs 20:7 - just Proverbs 28:18 - walketh

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.

Psalms 105:15
“Do not touch my anointed ones,or harm my prophets.”

Proverbs 6:29
So it is with the one who sleeps withanother man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Zechariah 2:8
For the Lord of Armies says this: “In pursuit of his glory, he sent me against the nations plundering you, for whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity,.... In which he had hitherto walked, Psalms 26:1; or it may express his faith, that after he was gathered by death he should walk in uprightness and righteousness, in purity and perfection, with Christ in white, and behold the face of God in righteousness; see Isaiah 57:1;

redeem me; from the vain conversation of the wicked, from all troubles, and out of the hands of all enemies;

and be merciful unto me; who was now in distress, being persecuted by Saul, and at a distance from the house of God: this shows that mercy is the source and spring of redemption, both temporal and spiritual; and that the psalmist did not trust in and depend upon his present upright walk and conversation, but in redemption by Christ, and upon the mercy of God in Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But as for me - The Hebrew is, “and I.” But there is evidently a contrast between what he purposed to do, and the course of life pursued by those to whom he had just referred; and this is correctly expressed in our translation, “But as for me.” It is a statement of his profession of piety, and of his purpose to lead a religious life. He “meant” - he solemnly “purposed” - to lead a holy life.

I will walk - I will live a life of integrity. See the notes at Psalms 1:1.

In mine integrity - Hebrew, in my “perfection.” See Psalms 7:8, note; Job 1:1, note. The idea is that he intended to live a life of uprightness.

Redeem me - From sin; from trouble; from death. The word “redeem” here implies that he did not claim to be “perfect” in the most absolute sense, even when he expressed his purpose to lead a life of integrity. He felt still that he was a sinner, and that he was dependent on redeeming mercy for salvation. On the word “redeem,” see Psalms 25:22, note; Isaiah 29:22, note. Compare the notes at Isaiah 43:3.

And be merciful to me - In connection with redemption. The prayer for mercy is always an acknowledgment of guilt, and the plea here shows that with all his purposes of holy living, and notwithstanding all that he had referred to in the psalm as evidence of uprightness of intention and integrity of life, he still felt that he was a sinner, and that his only hope was in the mercy of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 26:11. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity — Whatever I may have to do with public affairs, shall be done with the strictest attention to truth, justice, and mercy.

Redeem me — From all snares and plots laid against my life and my soul.

And be merciful unto me. — I deserve no good, but thou art merciful; deal with me ever in thy mercy.