Vindicate me, O Lord
							
																								
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									 Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
								
							 
																								
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									Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart (a) and mind.
								
							 
																								
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									For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
								
							 
																								
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									 I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
								
							 
																								
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									I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
								
							 
																								
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									I wash my hands in innocence  that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
								
							 
																								
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									to raise my voice in thanksgiving  and declare all Your wonderful works.
								
							 
																								
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									 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
								
							 
																								
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									Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
								
							 
																								
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									in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
								
							 
																								
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									 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
								
							 
																								
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									My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.
								
							 
																																								
								
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