Psalm 18:20
New International Version
The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

New Living Translation
The LORD rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.

English Standard Version
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.

NASB 1995
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

NASB 1977
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

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.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; He repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

American Standard Version
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH rewarded me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands he repaid me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

Contemporary English Version
You are good to me, LORD, because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

English Revised Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD rewarded me because of my righteousness, because my hands are clean. He paid me back

Good News Translation
The LORD rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.

International Standard Version
The LORD will reward me because I am righteous; because my hands are clean he will restore me;

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH repays me | According to my righteousness, | According to the cleanness of my hands, | He returns to me.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

New American Bible
The LORD acknowledged my righteousness, rewarded my clean hands.

NET Bible
The LORD repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he 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.

World English Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has 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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD is My Rock
19He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me. 20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands. 21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 24:19
When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go away unharmed? May the LORD reward you with good for what you have done for me this day.

1 Samuel 26:23
May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed.

Job 22:30
He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands."

Job 33:26
He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God's face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

Psalm 7:8
The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

Psalm 18:24
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

Psalm 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

rewarded

Psalm 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

1 Samuel 24:17,20
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil…

Proverbs 11:18
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

cleanness

Psalm 18:24
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

Psalm 7:3
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Psalm 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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Psalm 18
1. David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings














(20-23) for this protestation of innocence comp. Psalms 7, 17 and Job, passim. Self-righteous pride and vindication of one's character under calumny are very different things. If taken of the nation at large, comp. Numbers 23:21. Here, also, the text in Samuel offers one or two trifling variations from ours.

Verse 20. - The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. David has spoken of his "righteousness" already in Psalm 7:8. We must not suppose him to mean absolute blamelessness, any more than Job means such blamelessness by his "integrity" (Job 27:5; Job 31:6). He means honesty of purpose, the sincere endeavour to do right, such conduct as brings about "the answer of a good conscience before God" (1 Peter 3:21). According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me (comp. Job 27:9; Psalm 24:4). "Clean hands" are hands unstained by any wicked action.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has rewarded me
יִגְמְלֵ֣נִי (yiḡ·mə·lê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 1580: To deal fully or adequately with, deal out to, wean, ripen

according to my righteousness;
כְּצִדְקִ֑י (kə·ṣiḏ·qî)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

He has repaid me
יָשִׁ֥יב (yā·šîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

according to the cleanness
כְּבֹ֥ר (kə·ḇōr)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1252: Cleanness, pureness

of my hands.
יָ֝דַ֗י (yā·ḏay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 3027: A hand


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