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

耶和华啊，我要洗手表明无辜，才环绕你的祭坛；

耶和华啊，我要洗手表明无辜，才环绕你的祭坛；

耶和华啊，我要洗手表明无辜，才环绕你的祭坛；

耶和华啊，我洗手表明清白，再走到你的坛前，

耶和华啊！我要洗手表明无辜，才来绕着你的祭坛行走；

耶和华啊，我要洗净双手表明清白，还要绕着你的祭坛而行，

耶和華啊，我要洗手表明無辜，才環繞你的祭壇；

耶和華啊，我要洗手表明無辜，才環繞你的祭壇；

耶和華啊，我要洗手表明無辜，才環繞你的祭壇；

耶和華啊，我洗手表明清白，再走到你的壇前，

耶和華啊！我要洗手表明無辜，才來繞著你的祭壇行走；

永恆主啊，我要洗手表明無辜，才來繞行你的祭壇，

耶和華啊，我要洗淨雙手表明清白，還要繞著你的祭壇而行，

耶和華歟、我將盥手、以表無辜、環於爾壇兮、

我必盥手以示無辜、而詣耶和華臺前兮、

主歟、我必洗淨我手、巡繞主之祭臺、

洗手滌餘穢。留連於閟幄。

I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, Lord,

I wash my hands to show that I’m not guilty. Lord, I come near your altar.

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

I wash my hands to declare my innocence. I come to your altar, O Lord,

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, LORD,

I will wash my hands in innocence, And I will go around Your altar, Lord,

I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;

I wash my hands in innocence and go around Your altar, Lord,

I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

I concluded,“ Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it.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,

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.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,and since we have a great priest over the house of God,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.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

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,

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!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!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.

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!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 who rules over all!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.