Psalms Chapter 26 verse 9 Holy Bible
Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
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Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
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Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
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Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
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Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
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Don't gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
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Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Gather not my soul with sinners. Unite me not in one doom with open sinners - those with whom I have always refused to consort (vers. 4, 5) - whose congregation I have "hated." "That the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). Nor my life with bloody men. Bloody men - literally, men of bloods - are the worst of wicked men, cut-throats, assassins, murderers. At any rate, put me not on a par with them. Little, probably, did the psalmist think at this time how soon he was to become, practically, a murderer, and to "slay Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the children of Ammon" (2 Samuel 12:9)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Gather not.--Better as in margin. The psalmist prays that he may be spared to worship in the sanctuary, when doom falls on evildoers and carries them off. The LXX. and Vulg. have "destroy not."
