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

Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent unto me lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like those that go down into the grave.

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God, and he shall hurl forth the souls of thine enemies as out of the middle of a sling.

Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.

and shall cut him off and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats,

Blessed are those who do his commandments that their power and authority might be in the tree of life and they may enter in through the gates into the city.

Bloody men

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.

Then the king said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day eighty-five men that wore a linen ephod.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial;

Then there was a famine in the days of David for three consecutive years, and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is because of Saul and because of his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.