Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
New American Standard Bible
Nor my life with
King James Version
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Holman Bible
or my life along with men of bloodshed
International Standard Version
Do not group me with sinners, nor include me with men who shed blood.
A Conservative Version
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood,
American Standard Version
Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
Amplified
Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
Nor [sweep away] my life with men of bloodshed,
Bible in Basic English
Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
Darby Translation
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not gather my soul with the sinning, and my life with men of bloods:
King James 2000
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not destroy me with [the] sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed,
Modern King James verseion
Do not take away my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O shut not up my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty,
NET Bible
Do not sweep me away with sinners, or execute me along with violent people,
The Emphasized Bible
Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life;
Webster
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
World English Bible
Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
Youngs Literal Translation
Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 26:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Vindication
8 LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. 9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; 10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
Cross References
Psalm 139:19
If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men.
1 Samuel 22:18-19
The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests." Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 25:29
Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow.
2 Samuel 21:1
There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."
Psalm 28:1-3
To you, LORD, I call. My rock, do not be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
Psalm 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Matthew 24:51
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Matthew 25:32
Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Matthew 25:44
"Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not help you?'
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Revelation 22:14-15
Blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.