King James Version
Psalms 18:20 in the King James Version says “The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.”
Psalms 18:20 · KJV
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“rewarded”
H1580to treat a person (well or ill), i.e., benefit or requite; by implication (of toil), to ripen, i.e., (specifically) to wean
“me according to my righteousness”
H6664the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
“of my hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“hath he recompensed”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
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