Psalm 26:6 {25:6}
Good News Translation
LORD, I wash my hands to show that I am innocent and march in worship around your altar.

New Revised Standard Version
I wash my hands in innocence, and go around your altar, O LORD,

Contemporary English Version
I wash my hands, LORD, to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,

New American Bible
I will wash my hands in innocence so that I may process around your altar, Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

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Psalm 24:4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Exodus 30:19,20 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it: . . .

Isaiah 1:16-18 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Titus 3:5 Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of the Holy Ghost.

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

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Psalm 43:4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Malachi 2:11-13 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. . . .

Matthew 5:23,24 If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; . . .

1 Corinthians 11:28,29 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. . . .

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

Context
Vindicate Me, O LORD
5I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit. 6I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:7That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.…
Cross References
Genesis 20:5
Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.

Leviticus 8:6
And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had washed them,

Psalm 24:4
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 43:3
Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Psalm 43:4
And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Psalm 73:13
And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

Psalm 26:5
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