the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 18:20
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The Lord rewarded meaccording to my righteousness;he repaid meaccording to the cleanness of my hands.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
The Lord spared me because I did what was right. Because I have not done evil, he has rewarded me.
The Lord repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness (moral character, spiritual integrity); According to the cleanness of my hands He has rewarded me.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness;According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
You are good to me, Lord , because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.
He brought me out to an open place; he rescued me, because he took pleasure in me.
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
The Lord rewarded me for doing what is right. He was good to me because I am innocent.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
The Lord rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
The LORDE shall rewarde me after my rightuous dealynge, & acordinge to the clenesse of my hodes shal he recopense me.
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, according to the cleannesse of my hands hath hee recompensed me.
God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me.
And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
And he ledde out me in to breede; he maad me saaf, for he wolde me.
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
The Lord rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.
The Lord has paid me because of my being right with Him. Because of my clean hands He has paid me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me;
(17-21) And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.
The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
Contextual Overview
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
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .
Do you get it? The vineyard of God -of-the-Angel-Armies is the country of Israel. All the men and women of Judah are the garden he was so proud of. He looked for a crop of justice and saw them murdering each other. He looked for a harvest of righteousness and heard only the moans of victims.
We know we're guilty. We've lived bad lives— but do something, God . Do it for your sake! Time and time again we've betrayed you. No doubt about it—we've sinned against you. Hope of Israel! Our only hope! Israel's last chance in this trouble! Why are you acting like a tourist, taking in the sights, here today and gone tomorrow? Why do you just stand there and stare, like someone who doesn't know what to do in a crisis? But God , you are, in fact, here, here with us! You know who we are—you named us! Don't leave us in the lurch.
All the workers you've exploited and cheated cry out for judgment. The groans of the workers you used and abused are a roar in the ears of the Master Avenger. You've looted the earth and lived it up. But all you'll have to show for it is a fatter than usual corpse. In fact, what you've done is condemn and murder perfectly good persons, who stand there and take it.
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.
