Psalms 26:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O LORD,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶרְחַ֣ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּ֑י וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖ה אֶת־מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾErḥaṣ in-niqqāyôn kappāy and-ʾăsōḇəḇâh ʾeṯ-mizbaḥăḵā YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *ʾErḥaṣ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will wash
• *niqqāyôn*: noun - cleanness/innocence
• *kappāy*: dual noun with 1st person singular suffix - my hands/palms
• *ʾăsōḇəḇâh*: piel imperfect/cohortative 1st person singular - I will go around/encircle
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *mizbaḥăḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your altar
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD

Word Meanings

• *ʾErḥaṣ*: I will wash/I shall wash
• *niqqāyôn*: cleanness/innocence/purity
• *kappāy*: my hands/my palms
• *ʾăsōḇəḇâh*: I will go around/I will encircle/I may go about

Referenced Verses

• Ps 73:13 : 13 I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
• Exod 30:19-20 : 19 and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it. 20 When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,
• Ps 43:4 : 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
• Ps 24:4 : 4 The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
• Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning! 17 Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow! 18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
• Mal 2:11-13 : 11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god! 12 May the LORD cut off from the community of Jacob every last person who does this, as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! 13 You also do this: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.
• Matt 5:23-24 : 23 So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.
• 1 Cor 11:28-29 : 28 A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.
• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
• Titus 3:5 : 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.