Did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

我实在徒然洁净了我的心，徒然洗手表明无辜。

我实在徒然洁净了我的心，徒然洗手表明我的无辜，

我实在徒然洁净了我的心，徒然洗手表明我的无辜，

我洁身自爱，保持清白，实属徒然。

我谨守我心纯洁实在徒然；我洗手表明清白也是枉然。

即使我保持心纯洁，洗净双手表明清白，也都是徒然的！

我實在徒然潔淨了我的心，徒然洗手表明無辜。

我實在徒然潔淨了我的心，徒然洗手表明我的無辜，

我實在徒然潔淨了我的心，徒然洗手表明我的無辜，

我潔身自愛，保持清白，實屬徒然。

我謹守我心純潔實在徒然；我洗手表明清白也是枉然。

唉，我保持我心純潔、實在無用。我洗手表明無辜，也是徒然。

即使我保持心純潔，洗淨雙手表明清白，也都是徒然的！

我潔己心、盥手以表無辜、乃徒然兮、

我潔予心、濯余手、豈不徒勞兮。

我則徒然潔淨我心、枉然洗淨我手、

心跡蹤雙清。境遇反日蹙。

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence.

It seems as if I have kept my heart pure for no reason. It didn’t do me any good to wash my hands to show that I wasn’t guilty of doing anything wrong.

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Did I keep my heart pure for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for no reason?

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, And washed my hands in innocence.

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

Did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

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

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

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what will we gain by pleading with him?”

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

For he has said,“ A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

For you ask,“ What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You have said,“ It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus—he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain( that is, through his flesh)—and since we have a great high priest over the house of God,let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

If I said,“ I will forget my complaint, change my expression, and smile,”

then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.