Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And I will go about
King James Version
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Holman Bible
and go around Your altar, Lord,
International Standard Version
I wash my hands innocently. I go around your altar, LORD,
A Conservative Version
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,
American Standard Version
I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
Amplified
I will wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,
Bible in Basic English
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Darby Translation
I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
Julia Smith Translation
I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:
King James 2000
I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I go about your altar, O LORD:
Lexham Expanded Bible
I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,
Modern King James verseion
I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,
NET Bible
I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,
New Heart English Bible
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;
The Emphasized Bible
I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
Webster
I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:
World English Bible
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
Youngs Literal Translation
I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
Themes
Ablution » Of the hands, as a token of innocency
Innocency » Signified by washing the hands
Purification » Washing hands in water, symbolical of innocency
Purifications or baptisms » Used by the devout before entering God's house
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 26:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Vindication
5
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
6
And I will go about
Cross References
Psalm 73:13
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
Exodus 30:19-20
with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
Psalm 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Psalm 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
Malachi 2:11-13
Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Matthew 5:23-24
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
1 Corinthians 11:28-29
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Titus 3:5
he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:19-22
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,