Psalms 26:9
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
In Context
8LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
10in whose hands is wickedness; their right hand is full of bribes.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Psalms 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Malachi 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Matthew 25:32Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 26:7-12
Delight in Divine Ordinances. 6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord : 7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. 8 Lord , I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. 9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 12 My… Read the whole commentary →