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But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Psalms 26:11 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
  • BSB But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
  • NKJV But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be merciful to me.
  • NASB But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me, and be gracious to me.
  • NLT But I am not like that; I live with integrity. So redeem me and show me mercy.

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Quick answer

In contrast, David resolves to walk in integrity and asks God to redeem and be merciful to him. His integrity rests on God's redeeming mercy.

Overview

David reaffirms his commitment to walk in integrity, yet immediately appeals for redemption and mercy, showing that his hope rests not on his own goodness but on God's grace. Integrity and dependence on mercy belong together. This balance points to the gospel, where the believer's blameless walk is sustained by the redeeming and merciful work of Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Ps 69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
  • Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
  • 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • 1 Th 2:10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
  • Isa 38:3And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
  • Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • 2 Chr 31:20–21And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
  • Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  • Ps 103:7–8He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
  • Neh 13:14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
  • Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Neh 13:31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
  • Ps 103:3–4Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
  • Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
  • Ps 49:7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
  • 1 Sam 12:2–5And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
  • Neh 13:22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
  • Neh 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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