Psalms 26:9

7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
KJV
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
WEB
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men
ASV
Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
DARBY
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
BLB
Do not gather my soul with sinners, and my life with men of blood,
ÅB
Rykk ikke sjelen min bort med syndere
eller livet mitt med blodtørstige menn,
OTB
Samle ikke min sjel med syndere,
Eller mitt liv med dem som utøser blod,
B1930
Rykk ikke min sjel bort med syndere eller mitt liv med blodgjerrige menn,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Matthew 25:32

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

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  • Revelation 22:14–15

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

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  • Psalms 139:19

    O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

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  • Matthew 25:44

    And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

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  • 1 Samuel 22:18–19

    So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

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  • Matthew 25:46

    And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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  • Malachi 3:18

    So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

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  • 2 Samuel 21:1

    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

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