Psalms 26:3 - Exposition

For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes. The psalmist now enters upon an enumeration of the points of conduct on which his confidence in his integrity rests. They are six—three positive and three negative. First of all, he keeps God's loving-kindness, or mercy ( חֶסֶד ), ever before his eyes—reflects on it, meditates on it, presents it to his thought—continually. And I have walked in thy truth. Secondly, he walks—he has always walked—in God s truth. God's Law is the truth ( Psalms 119:42 ); and walking in God's truth is walking in the Law which he has given to men; as Hitzig, Maurer, and others have seen. Hengstenberg's exposition, "I have constantly thought upon thy faithfulness," cannot be admitted.