Psalms 26:3
in Psalms 26For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in thy truth.
KJV
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
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This verse in Psalms 26
Commentary
4 notes on this verseHe seeks justice so that he may tell of mercy.
This site's exposition
I have walked with integrity
on Psalms 26:1-3
David asks the LORD to try him, and names his heart and mind as the ground of the trial. Gill and Henry read walked with integrity as sincerity of purpose, a single loyalty to God. His confidence rests on the loving devotion kept before his eyes.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
(2.) He governed himself by the word of God as his rule: " I have walked in thy truth, that is, according to thy law, for thy law is truth." Note, Those only may expect the benefit of God's loving-kindness that live up to his truths, and his laws that are grounded upon them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes. An object of memory and a ground of hope. A sense of mercy received sets a fair prospect before the faithful mind in its gloomiest condition, for it yields visions of mercies yet to come, visions not visionary but real. Dwell, dear reader, upon that celestial word lovingkindness. It has a heavenly savour. Is it not an unmatchable word, unexcelled, unrivalled?
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חַ֭סְדְּךָ | chasdekha | covenant loyalty your | H2617 → | 247 times |
| לְנֶ֣גֶד | leneged | [is] to before | H5048 → | 151 times |
| עֵינָ֑י | ʾeinai | eyes my | H5869 → | 887 times |
| וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּי | vehithalakhti | and I walk about | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃ | baamitekha | in faithfulness your | H571 → | 127 times |
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
חַ֭סְדְּךָcovenant loyalty your
chasdekhaH2617 →247 times
לְנֶ֣גֶד[is] to before
lenegedH5048 →151 times
עֵינָ֑יeyes my
ʾeinaiH5869 →887 times
וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּיand I walk about
vehithalakhtiH1980 →1546 times
בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃in faithfulness your
baamitekhaH571 →127 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ephesians 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
it leads to
- Colossians 3:12–13
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- Matthew 6:14–15
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- Mark 11:25
And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
- 1 Peter 3:8–9
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
- 2 Corinthians 2:10
If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,
- Colossians 3:12–13
Through
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
it leads to
- Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- Romans 13:12
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
- Ephesians 5:8
Through
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
it leads to
- Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Romans 8:32
About Psalms

This page draws on Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 1; Jerome, BRIEF COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 25[26]; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
