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6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
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Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: …
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)In these verses, I. David mentions, as further evidence of his integrity, the sincere affection he had to the ordinances of God, the constant care he took about them, and the pleasure he took in them. Hypocrites and dissemblers may indeed be found attending on God’s ordinances, as the proud Pharisee went up to the temple to pray with the penitent publican; but it is a good sign of sincerity if we…
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