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 thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

Yet a man hath 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 the souls of thy enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the middle of a sling.

Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

And will 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 will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth 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 blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: 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 bloody men.

And 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 and five persons 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 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.