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13Verily I have cleansed{H8765)} my heart in vain, and washed{H8799)} my hands in innocency.
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I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. “However it be, yet God is good.” Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he…
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