For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
David appeals to God as judge and advocate because men have offered him neither equity nor help. Oppressed by false accusations, he calls God to take up his cause and vindicate his innocence, for he has walked in integrity and trusted without wavering.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 26:1-12
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?
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him.
Commenting on Psalm 26:1-5