Genesis 49:6

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Summary

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

O my soul

Come

Secret

Unto their

Honour

Psalm 16:9

Psalm 30:12

Psalm 57:8

A man

Genesis 34:25

General references

Numbers 1:22

Bible References

O my soul

The river of Kishon caught them away: that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, tread thou the mighty underfoot.

Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? Put thy trust in God; for I will give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

Why art thou so heavy, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God, for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

{Of David} Praise the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me praise his holy name.

"Ah, my belly! Ah, my belly!" shalt thou cry, "how is my heart so sore?" My heart panteth within me, I cannot be still, for I have heard the crying of the trumpets, and peals of war.

and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.'

Come

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."

Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish in their own imaginations! Cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; for they have rebelled against thee.

I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

O pluck me not away, neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers, which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.

Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God, that the bloodthirsty might depart from me?

if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the imagination of the ungodly are deceitful.

Secret

"'Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

O shut not up my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

Hide me from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers,

I dwell not among the council of scorners, neither is my delight therein: but I dwell only in the fear of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with bitterness.

Unto their

O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

O shut not up my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?

Honour

Wherefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope.

Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.

Awake, O my glory; awake lute and harp. I myself will awake right early.

A man

And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male;

General references

Among the children of Simeon, their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers - when every man's name was told, of all the males from twenty years and above, whatsoever was meet for the war -