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Psalms 26:6
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I wash my hands in innocenceand go around your altar, Lord,
I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, LORD;
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord :
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord ,
I wash my hands to show I am innocent, and I come to your altar, Lord .
I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord ,
I will wash my hands in innocence, And I will go about Your altar, O LORD,
I will wash my hands in innocence, And I will go around Your altar, LORD,
I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar,
I shall wash my hands in innocence,So I will go around Your altar, O Yahweh,
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
I wash my hands, Lord , to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,
I will wash my hands in innocence and walk around your altar, Adonai ,
I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
Lord , I wash my hands to make myself pure, so that I can come to your altar.
I have washed my hands clean, and I have gone around thy altar, O LORD,
Lord , I wash my hands to show that I am innocent and march in worship around your altar.
I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,
I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
I wa?she my hondes with innocency O LORDE, and so go I to thine aulter.
I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD,
I will wash mine hands in innocencie: so will I compasse thine Altar, O Lord:
I haue wasshed my handes in innocencie: and [so] I haue gone about thine aulter O God.
I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:
I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
I schal waische myn hondis among innocentis; and, Lord, Y schal cumpasse thin auter.
I will wash my hands in innocence: So I will compass your altar, O Yahweh;
I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:
I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,
I wash my hands to declare my innocence. I come to your altar, O Lord ,
I will wash my hands of any guilt. And I will go around Your altar, O Lord.
I wash my hands in innocence, and go around your altar, O Lord ,
I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
(25-6) I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
I wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O LORD,
I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
I shall wash my hands in innocence, And I will go about Your altar, O Lord ,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wash: Psalms 24:4, Psalms 73:13, Exodus 30:19, Exodus 30:20, Isaiah 1:16-18, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 10:19-22
so will: Psalms 43:4, Malachi 2:11-13, Matthew 5:23, Matthew 5:24, 1 Corinthians 11:28, 1 Corinthians 11:29, 1 Timothy 2:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - and innocency Exodus 38:8 - the laver Exodus 40:7 - General Exodus 40:31 - washed Leviticus 15:5 - General Leviticus 15:10 - General Deuteronomy 21:6 - wash their hands Deuteronomy 26:13 - I have not 2 Chronicles 29:34 - upright Job 8:6 - thou wert Job 9:30 - General Job 17:9 - clean Psalms 18:20 - cleanness Psalms 27:4 - dwell Psalms 27:6 - therefore Psalms 134:2 - in the sanctuary Daniel 6:22 - forasmuch Matthew 27:24 - and washed Mark 7:4 - except John 11:55 - to purify John 13:9 - not James 4:8 - Cleanse
Cross-References
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will wash my hands in innocency,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "among innocent persons"; men of a holy harmless life and conversation; with these he determined to converse in common, and not with such as before described; or the sense is, that he would wash his hands, in token of his innocence, integrity, and uprightness, he had before spoke of, and of his having nothing to do with such evil men as now mentioned; see Deuteronomy 21:6; "hands" are the instrument of action, and to "wash" them may design the performance of good works, Job 9:30; and to do this "in innocency", or "purity", may signify the performance of them from a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned; and particularly may have some respect to the lifting up of holy hands in prayer to God, previous to public worship; there seems to be an allusion to the priests washing their hands before they offered sacrifice, Exodus 30:19;
so will I compass thine altar, O Lord; frequent the house of God, where the altar was, and constantly attend the worship and ordinances of God; the work of the altar being put for the whole of divine service; the altar of burnt offering is here meant, which was a type of Christ; see
Hebrews 13:10; reference is had to the priests at the altar, who used to go round it, when they laid the sacrifice on the altar, and bound it to the horns of it, at the four corners, and there sprinkled and poured out the blood; compare Psalms 43:4; in order to which they washed their hands, as before; and in later times it was usual with the Heathens y to wash their hands before divine service.
y "----pura cum veste venito, et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam, nunc lavabo ut rem divinam faciam", Tibull. l. 2. eleg. 1. Plantus in Aullular. Act. 3. Sc. 6. Vide Homer. Odyss, 12. v. 336, 337.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will wash mine hands in innocency - The psalmist here refers, as another evidence of his piety, to the fact that it was a ruling purpose of his life to be pure, to worship and serve his Maker in purity. He had stated that he had no sympathy with the wicked, and that he did not make them his companions; he now states what his preferences were, and where his heart was to be found. He had loved, and he still loved the worship of God; he delighted in the pure service of the Most High. Washing the hands is an emblem of purity. So Pilate Matthew 27:24 “took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.” Compare Deuteronomy 21:6-7. The word rendered “innocency” means properly “cleanness, purity;” and perhaps the allusion here is to water that is perfectly pure. The sense of the passage is, that he would endeavor to make himself pure, and would thus worship God. He would not come, practicing iniquity, or cherishing sin in his heart. He would banish all from his mind and heart and life that was wrong, and would come with true love to God, and with the spirit of a sincere worshipper.
So will I compass thine altar, O Lord - In this manner, and with this spirit, I will worship thee. The word “compass” may either mean that he would “embrace” it by throwing his arms around it, or that he would “go round” it with others in a solemn procession in worship. The idea is, that he would come to the altar of God with his offering in sincerity and truth. It was to himself one evidence of sincere piety that he so purposed in his heart, or that he was conscious of a desire to worship God in purity and truth. This desire is always an indication of true piety.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 26:6. I will wash mine hands in innocency — Washing the hands was frequent among the Jews, and was sometimes an action by which a man declared his innocence of any base or wicked transaction. This Pilate did, to protest his innocence of the mal-treatment and death of Christ. I will maintain that innocence of life in which I have hitherto walked; and take care that nothing shall be found in my heart or life that would prevent me from using the most holy ordinance, or worshipping thee in spirit and truth.
So will I compass thine altar — It is a mark of respect among the Hindoos to walk several times round a superior, and round a temple.
