Mazmur 26:6

26:6 I maintain a pure lifestyle, ¹ 

so I can appear before your altar, ²  O Lord,

Mazmur 51:19

51:19 Then you will accept ³  the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings;

then bulls will be sacrificed ⁴  on your altar. ⁵ 

[26:6]  ¹ tn Heb “I wash my hands in innocence.” The psalmist uses an image from cultic ritual to picture his moral lifestyle. The imperfect verbal emphasizes that this is his habit.

[26:6]  ² tn Heb “so I can go around your altar” (probably in ritual procession). Following the imperfect of the preceding line, the cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.

[51:19]  ³ tn Or “desire, take delight in.”

[51:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “then they will offer up bulls.” The third plural subject is indefinite.

[51:19]  ⁵ sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.