Psalms 25

¹Unto the end the Psalm of David. Judge me, o Lord, because I have walked in my innocency: and hoping in our Lord I shall not be weakened.

²Prove me Lord, and tempt me: burn my reins and my heart.

³Because thy mercy is before mine eyes: and I am well pleased in thy truth.

⁴I have not sitten with the Council of vanity: and with them that do unjust things I will not enter in.

⁵I have hated the Church of the malignant: and with the impious I will not sit.

⁶I will wash my hands among innocents: and will compass thy altar, o Lord:

⁷That I may hear the voice of praise, and shew forth all thy marvelous works.

⁸Lord I have loved the beauty of thy house, and the place of the habitation of thy glory.

⁹Destroy not, o God, my soul with the impious, and my life with bloody men.

¹⁰In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is replenished with gifts.

¹¹But I have walked in mine innocency: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

¹²My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the Churches I will bless thee o Lord.