Psalms Chapter 26 verse 6 Holy Bible
I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
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I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
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I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
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I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
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I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:
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I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
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I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - I will wash mine hands in innoceney; so will I compass thine altar, O Lord. This seems to be the key-note of the psalm. If not a necessary, it is at any rate a probable, exegesis, that David composed this psalm on an occasion when he was about to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to God for some mercy recently vouchsafed him (ver. 7). Before offering, he feels the necessity of doing spiritually that which the priest' who officiated would have to do ceremonially (Exodus 30:17-21) - to "wash his hands in innocency, and so to go to God's altar." His self-justification from ver. 1 to ver. 5 has had for its object to clear him from guilt.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) I will wash.--First a symbolical action (Deuteronomy 21:6 seq.; Matthew 27:24), then a figure of speech (Job 9:30; Ezekiel 36:25). The Levitical authorship or, at all events, the Levitical character of the psalm appears from comparison of this with Exodus 30:17 seq.So will I.--Better, that I may, &c. There is no other reference in Jewish literature to the custom of pacing round the altar, but it was a very natural and obvious addition to a gorgeous ceremonial--like the processions in churches where a high ceremonial is adopted. It is, however, implied from the Talmud that it was part of the ceremonial of the Feast of Tabernacles for people to march round the altar with palms. . . .
