Psalms 73:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Psalms 73:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 26:6
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job 35:3
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Hebrews 10:19-22
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, …

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-14. The Psalmist, partaking of these troubles, is especially disturbed in view of his own case, that with all his diligent efforts for a holy life, he is still sorely tried.