"The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, He knows, and let Israel itself know -- if [it is] in rebellion, or if in treachery against the LORD, do not save us this day.

"Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, [and] if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

"Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done [what was] good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

"I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these [things;] and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You.

The LORD shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

The righteous [man] walks in his integrity; His children [are] blessed after him.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

You [are] witnesses, and God [also,] how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;

although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.

'I [am] pure, without transgression; I [am] innocent, and [there is] no iniquity in me.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully.

I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,

Surely I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, And washed my hands in innocence.

"My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you."