God’s Word Translation
Psalms 26:3
3I see your mercy in front of me. I walk in the light of your truth.
Psalms 26:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
- New International Version (NIV)for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
Context of Psalms 26:3
1Judge me favorably, O Lord, because I have walked with integrity and I have trusted you without wavering. 2Examine me, O Lord, and test me. Look closely into my heart and mind. I see your mercy in front of me. I walk in the light of your truth. 4I did not sit with liars, and I will not be found among hypocrites. 5I have hated the mob of evildoers and will not sit with wicked people.
Read all of Psalms 26Psalms 26:3 word by word
כִּֽי־חַ֭סְדְּךָ לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּי בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 26:3
- Psalms 52:1Why do you brag about the evil you’ve done, you hero? The mercy of God lasts all day long!
- Psalms 85:10Mercy and truth have met. Righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Matthew 5:44But I tell you this: Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.
- Luke 6:36Be merciful as your Father is merciful.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18As all of us reflect the Lord’s glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14Clearly, Christ’s love guides us. We are convinced of the fact that one man has died for all people. Therefore, all people have died.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9You know about the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was rich, yet for your sake he became poor in order to make you rich through his poverty.
- Ephesians 4:32Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you through Christ.
- Ephesians 5:1Imitate God, since you are the children he loves.
- Colossians 3:12As holy people whom God has chosen and loved, be sympathetic, kind, humble, gentle, and patient.
- 1 John 4:7Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
- 3 John 1:11Dear friend, never imitate evil, but imitate good. The person who does good is from God. The person who does evil has never seen God.
- Psalms 25:5Lead me in your truth and teach me because you are God, my savior. I wait all day long for you.
- Psalms 101:2I want to understand the path to integrity. When will you come to me? I will live in my own home with integrity.
- Psalms 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your teachings are reliable.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Lord, remember how I’ve lived faithfully and sincerely in your presence. I’ve done what you consider right.” And he cried bitterly.
Commentaries on Psalms 26:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3For thy loving-kindness - A sense of thy favor and approbation was more to my heart than thrones and sceptres; and in order to retain this blessing, I have walked in thy truth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes - Thy favor or friendship is constantly before me, in the sense that it is the object of my desire. I wish to secure it; I long to know whether I have sufficient evidence that it is mine. This is a reason why he desires that God would search him. The favor or the friendship of God was an object of intense desire with him. He had evidence upon which he relied, and which seemed to him to be satisfactory, that God…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3For God’s truth to become part of one’s character requires a habitual commitment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. As often, the ground of prayer for present help is former favor.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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