Psalm 26:9

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Summary

Psalm 26:9

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Gather not

Bloody men

Bible References

Gather not

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

Bloody men

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the

pit of destruction;

Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in You.

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;

Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

Thus Shimei said when he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and worthless fellow!

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”