Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
In Context
12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Cross References
Job 9:27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
Job 9:31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Hebrews 10:19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:2-15
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7… Read the whole commentary →