His experience is not singular, but the enmity of the world and sin bring all who belong to the people of God into straits just as they have him. And the need of the individual will not cease until the need of the whole undergoes a radical remedy. Hence the intercessory prayer of this meagre closing distich, whose connection with what precedes is not in this instance so close as in Psalm 34:23. It looks as though it was only added when Psalm 25 came to be used in public worship; and the change of the name of God favours this view. Both Psalms close with a פ in excess of the alphabet. Perhaps the first פ represents the π, and the second the φ; for Psalm 25:16; Psalm 34:17 follow words ending in a consonant, and Psalm 25:22; Psalm 34:23, words ending in a vowel. Or is it a propensity for giving a special representation of the final letters, just as these are sometimes represented, though not always perfectly, at the close of the hymns of the synagogue (pijutim)?

Psalm 26:6 Parallel Commentaries

wash

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

Psalm 73:13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Exodus 30:19,20 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat...

Isaiah 1:16-18 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil...

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration...

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus...

so will

Psalm 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, on the harp will I praise you, O God my God.

Malachi 2:11-13 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem...

Matthew 5:23,24 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you...

1 Corinthians 11:28,29 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup...

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.