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.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

And shall cut him asunder, 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 they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Bloody men

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

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

Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.

And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

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

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