T ‘Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
For I wait for you.'
His final concern is for the triumph of integrity and uprightness (in contrast with his enemies' treachery - Psalms 25:3). He does not just want to be preserved, but preserved in integrity and uprightness. He wants them to act as his Preserver (compare goodness and mercy in Psalms 23:6; lovingkindness and truth in Psalms 40:11). And this is because he waits on God. He knows that there is no point in waiting on God without integrity and uprightness. He can wait in expectancy for God to act because what he is reveals that he is God's man, and he will be preserved in integrity and uprightness because he is waiting on God as God's man.
‘Integrity and uprightness.' Compare Psalms 18:23, ‘I was also perfect with Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity', and Psalms 15:2, where ‘he who walks uprightly and works righteousness' will dwell in His holy hill. God answered his prayer, for this was in fact God's testimony to Solomon concerning David, ‘as David your father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness' (1 Kings 9:4). Blessed indeed is the one of whom God can say that.