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Psalms 18:20

God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Integrity;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Recompense/restitution;   Rendering;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lye;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hand;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Justice;   Papyrus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord rewarded meaccording to my righteousness;he repaid meaccording to the cleanness of my hands.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
King James Version
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
English Standard Version
The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
New Century Version
The Lord spared me because I did what was right. Because I have not done evil, he has rewarded me.
New English Translation
The Lord repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.
Amplified Bible
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness (moral character, spiritual integrity); According to the cleanness of my hands He has rewarded me.
New American Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
World English Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness;According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
Contemporary English Version
You are good to me, Lord , because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.
Complete Jewish Bible
He brought me out to an open place; he rescued me, because he took pleasure in me.
Darby Translation
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord rewarded me for doing what is right. He was good to me because I am innocent.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Good News Translation
The Lord rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.
Literal Translation
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE shall rewarde me after my rightuous dealynge, & acordinge to the clenesse of my hodes shal he recopense me.
American Standard Version
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, according to the cleannesse of my hands hath hee recompensed me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.
English Revised Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he ledde out me in to breede; he maad me saaf, for he wolde me.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
New King James Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
New Living Translation
The Lord rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.
New Life Bible
The Lord has paid me because of my being right with Him. Because of my clean hands He has paid me.
New Revised Standard
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-21) And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.
THE MESSAGE
God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to God 's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Contextual Overview

20 God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me. 21 Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God. 22 For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me. 23 And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse. 24 Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght. 25 With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect. 26 With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde. 27 For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude. 28 Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rewarded: Psalms 58:11, 1 Samuel 24:17, 1 Samuel 24:20, Proverbs 11:18, Isaiah 49:4, Isaiah 62:11, Matthew 6:4, 1 Corinthians 3:8

cleanness: Psalms 18:24, Psalms 7:3, Psalms 24:4, Psalms 26:6, 1 Samuel 24:11-13, Hebrews 7:26

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:30 - I will honour 1 Samuel 20:1 - What have 1 Samuel 24:19 - the Lord 1 Samuel 26:23 - render 2 Samuel 22:21 - rewarded 1 Kings 3:6 - according 1 Kings 8:39 - give to every man 2 Chronicles 6:30 - render Job 23:11 - My foot Job 27:6 - I hold fast Job 33:26 - he will Psalms 7:8 - according Psalms 17:1 - Hear Psalms 25:21 - General Psalms 35:24 - Judge Psalms 101:3 - set Psalms 119:121 - I have Isaiah 38:3 - Remember Ezekiel 18:22 - in his 1 Thessalonians 2:10 - how Hebrews 5:7 - and James 4:8 - Cleanse

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.
Genesis 19:13
For we wyl destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the face of God: for the Lorde hath sent vs to destroy it.
Isaiah 3:9
Their very countenaunce bewrayeth the, yea they declare their owne sinnes [themselues] as Sodome, they hide it not: Wo be to their owne soules, for they haue rewarded euyll vnto them selues.
Isaiah 5:7
As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying.
Jeremiah 14:7
Doubtlesse our owne wickednesse doth rewarde vs: but Lorde do thou accordyng to thy name, though our transgression and sinnes be many, and agaynst thee haue we sinned.
James 5:4
Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness,.... Which, if applied to David, cannot be understood of his own personal righteousness, or of works of righteousness done by him, for these merit nothing at the hand of God; no reward, in strict justice, is due to them, or given to them: a man's own righteousness is imperfect, and by the law of God is not accounted a righteousness; and it is unprofitable to God, is no gain to him, and so not rewardable by him; and were it perfect, it is but man's duty, and what God has a prior right to, and so is not recompensed by him; though it is so far from being pure and perfect, that it is attended with much sin, and is no other than rags, and filthy ones, which can never recommend a person to God; it is what will not bear the sight of God, and can never be called cleanness in his eyesight: by it no man is justified before him; and though God does, indeed, reward the works of his people, which are fruits of his grace, yet the reward is not of debt, but of grace. This, therefore, must be understood of the righteousness of David's cause, and of his innocence with respect to the things he was charged with by his enemies; of his righteousness towards Saul; and of "the cleanness of [his] hands", in not defiling them with his blood, when it was in his power to take away his life; therefore God rewarded him by delivering him out of his hands, and setting him upon the throne, and causing his kingdom to flourish and prosper; for this respects temporal blessings, and not eternal glory and happiness; and is something that had been and was then enjoyed, and not anything future, or in another world: though it is best of all to apply it to Christ, and understand it of his righteousness, which he, as Mediator, has wrought out for his people; this is perfect, pure, and spotless, and entirely agreeable to the law of God; what will bear the sight of God, is satisfying to his justice, is well pleasing to him, and is what he accepts of, and imputes to them that believe in Christ, and by which they are justified from all things. Now, according to this righteousness, Christ in strict justice has been rewarded in his own person; as he had the work of man's redemption assigned him, and he agreed to do it, he had a reward promised him, and which he claimed, when he had glorified his Father and finished his work; and which he received when he was set down at the right hand of God, crowned with glory and honour, in consequence of his obedience, sufferings, and death; see Philippians 2:7; and he is rewarded in his members according to his righteousness, they being justified by it, and made heirs of eternal life on account of it, and are or will be glorified with him for evermore;

according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me; which signifies the same thing.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness - That is, he saw that I did not deserve the treatment which I received from my enemies, and therefore he interposed to save me. Compare the note at Psalms 17:3.

According to the cleanness of my hands - So far as my fellow-men are concerned. I have done them no wrong.

Hath he recompensed me - By rescuing me from the power of my enemies. It is not inconsistent with proper views of piety - with true humility before God - to feel and to say, that so far as our fellow-men are concerned, we have not deserved ill-treatment at their hands; and, when we are delivered from their power, it is not improper to say and to feel that the interposition in the case has been according to justice and to truth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:20. The Lord rewarded me — David proceeds to give the reasons why God had so marvellously interposed in his behalf.

According to my righteousness — Instead of being an enemy to Saul, I was his friend. I dealt righteously with him while he dealt unrighteously with me.


 
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