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Psalm 26:1

By David. Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.

1By David. Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.
2Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
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“Judge me, LORD” can feel like a daring prayer: David asks God to assess his life while declaring both his integrity and his trust.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.Both passages join trust in the LORD with conduct: David speaks of integrity, and Psalm 37 commands doing good.
Psalm 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.Both prayers name integrity while looking to God, one through unwavering trust and the other through waiting.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.Integrity describes David’s walk in the psalm and serves as a guide for the upright in the proverb.
Proverbs 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.Both describe walking in integrity, while the proverb adds a blessing for the righteous man’s children.
Psalm 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.Both prayers appeal to God for judgment, with Psalm 43 naming deceitful and wicked opponents.
Psalm 7:8The LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.Both prayers ask the LORD to judge the speaker and appeal to the integrity of the speaker’s life.
1 Samuel 24:15May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”Both appeals place judgment in the LORD’s hands, while Samuel’s account includes a plea for deliverance from another person.
2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah …Both speakers appeal to the LORD by describing how they have walked, naming integrity or truth as marks of their lives.
Proverbs 20:28Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.The connection is broad: David names his integrity, while the proverb speaks of love and faithfulness keeping a king safe.
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.Both concern dependence on the LORD: David declares his trust, while Samuel’s passage says human strength cannot secure victory.
1 Kings 9:4As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, …Both associate David with walking in integrity, and Kings names obedience to God’s commands as part of that walk.
1 Corinthians 4:3–6But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.Both concern being judged, though David asks for the LORD’s judgment and Paul gives little weight to human judgment.
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Encouragement

David’s confidence leaves room for God to examine his heart and mind in the next verse. Your life is open to YHWH, whose loving kindness David keeps before his eyes.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).